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The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780674360419
- Book Title
- Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Religion, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Children's Studies, Christian Church / History, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Christian Life / Social Issues, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx)
- Item Weight
- 27.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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This text tells the disturbing history of racial boundaries along the USA/Mexican border. It focuses on the case of some Irish orphans who were placed with Mexican families, and the resulting anger of the town's Anglos who formed a vigilante squad to kidnap the children away from the Mexicans.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674360419
ISBN-13
9780674360419
eBay Product ID (ePID)
907264
Product Key Features
Book Title
Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Children's Studies, Christian Church / History, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Christian Life / Social Issues, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, History, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
27.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
Written in the lush prose and plots of a Joseph Conrad novel, Linda Gordon's The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction is [an] extraordinary chronicle...More than an isolated case of frontier vigilantism, the affair swirled into the national headlines, fanning the flames of the caustic debate over religion and race...Peeling off the overlapping intrigues, issues, and players of the incident with the precision of a historical detective, Gordon, a leading social historian on issues of gender and family, goes far beyond the question of blatant racism in a racist epoch to examine the cultural and historical makeup that allowed the affair to happen in the first place...Her meticulously researched and reasoned chronicle is a masterwork of historical analysis that deserves to remain on bookshelves far into the future., Linda Gordon's The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction is a spellbinding narrative history--the kind of rigorous but engaging work that other academics dream of writing. Gordon here unearths a long forgotten story about abandoned Irish-Catholic children in turn-of-the-century New York who were sent out to Arizona to be adopted by good Catholic families. The hitch was that those families turned out to be dark-skinned Mexicans. What ensued was a custody battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The astonishing story Gordon has recovered considers vexed intellectual questions about race, class and gender in a dramatic, accessible fashion., In her gripping book, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, Linda Gordon has written a model study of the creation and maintenance of race relations that manages to capture both the breathless sensationalism of the era's tabloids and the complexity of social status, shifting racial codes and the multiple uses of sex roles in social action...Gordon divides her story into six scenes, most of them devoted to some portion of the four days when the orphans' arrival engulfed Clifton-Morenci in a near riot followed by a mass kidnapping. Spliced between each scene is the history--long-term and proximate--of the towns' sociocultural landscape. It is an ingenious narrative device that enables her to reconstitute the distinct social structures of the area while rendering a taut journalistic account of the unfolding drama...The magnificence of her achievement [is] her masterly assembly of historical detail and acute sensitivity to the intricacies of human relations as mediated by power, prejudice and the passing of time.
Lccn
99-030984
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
305.8/009791/51
Lc Classification Number
F819.C55g67 1999
Table of Content
Preface Cast of Principal Characters October 2, 1904, Night: North Clifton, Arizona September 25, 1904: Grand Central Station, New York City 1. King Copper October 1, 1904, 6:30 p.m.: Clifton Railroad Station 2. Mexicans Come to the Mines October 1, 1904, around 7:30 p.m.: Sacred Heart Church, Clifton 3. The Priest in the Mexican Camp October 2, 1904, Afternoon: Morenci Square and Clifton Library Hall 4. The Mexican Mothers and the Mexican Town October 2, 1904, Evening: The Hills of Clifton 5. The Anglo Mothers and the Company Town October 2, 1904, Night: Clifton Hotel 6. The Strike October 3-4, 1904: Clifton Drugstore and Library Hall, Morenci Hotel 7. Vigilantism January 1905: Courtroom of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, Phoenix 8. Family and Race Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments Index Maps Sonoran Highlands Mining Region in 1903 Old Clifton and Morenci
Copyright Date
1999
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