Borderline Americans : racial division and labor war in the Arizona borderlands
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Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Format
Book
ISBN
9780674032774 (alk. paper)
Physical Desc
367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Street Date
0904
Language
English
ISBN
9780674032774 (alk. paper)
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-348) and index.
Description
Benton-Cohen explores the daily lives and shifting racial boundaries between groups as disparate as Apache resistance fighters, Chinese merchants, Mexican-American homesteaders, Midwestern dry farmers, Mormon polygamists, Serbian miners, New York mine managers, and Anglo women reformers. Racial categories once grew sharper as industrial mining dominated the region. Ideas about home, family, work and wages, manhood and womanhood all shaped how people thought about race. Mexicans were legally white, but were they suitable marriage partners for "Americans"? Why were Italian miners described as living "as no white man can"? By showing the multiple possibilities for racial meanings in America, Benton-Cohen's insightful and informative work challenges our assumptions about race and national identity.
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Chatham Borough-Chatham Township Library - Adult Nonfiction | 305.8 BEN | Available |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Cochise County (Ariz.) -- Economic conditions.
Cochise County (Ariz.) -- Race relations.
Cochise County (Ariz.) -- Social conditions.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona -- Cochise County.
Labor disputes -- Arizona -- Cochise County -- History.
Labor movement -- Arizona -- Cochise County -- History.
Mexican-American Border Region -- History.
Racism -- Arizona -- Cochise County -- History.
Social conflict -- Arizona -- Cochise County -- History.
Working class -- Arizona -- Cochise County -- History.
Cochise County (Ariz.) -- Race relations.
Cochise County (Ariz.) -- Social conditions.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona -- Cochise County.
Labor disputes -- Arizona -- Cochise County -- History.
Labor movement -- Arizona -- Cochise County -- History.
Mexican-American Border Region -- History.
Racism -- Arizona -- Cochise County -- History.
Social conflict -- Arizona -- Cochise County -- History.
Working class -- Arizona -- Cochise County -- History.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Benton-Cohen, K. (2009). Borderline Americans: racial division and labor war in the Arizona borderlands . Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Benton-Cohen, Katherine. 2009. Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands. Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Benton-Cohen, Katherine. Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands Harvard University Press, 2009.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Benton-Cohen, Katherine. Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands Harvard University Press, 2009.
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