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THE GREAT ARIZONA ORPHAN ABDUCTION
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| By: |
Linda Gordon |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£25.95 |
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£20.76 |
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£5.19 |
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| ISBN 10: |
067400535X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674005358 |
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| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
2 April, 2001 |
| Pages: |
432 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Mexican Catholic families. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. Linda Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects, the tangled intersection of family and racial values, in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child." |
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36 halftones in one 24 page insert, 2 maps, 1 table |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of American Historical Association Albert J. Beveridge Award 2000 |
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Returnable |
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