She contextualises the event superbly, giving us a well-rounded portrait of Clifton-Morenci at the time, as well as taking us through the ideological and emotional processes which moved people to act as they did.”—Catriona Crowe, The Irish Times, “It is both fascinating and disturbing to delve into specific events of American history: Cultural biases explode, exploitation simmers, and religious identity is challenged. “I am wounded,” he writes. As I read the book I thought it was very interesting, and I learned about events that I didn't know about before. There are strains of religion in this book as well since the criteria for the sisters of the order were good catholic homes. Did any of them grow up to be well-adjusted but non-discriminating adults, or did the example they were given as infants (and presumably through the rest of their lives in Arizona) warp their adult lives, too? | You want details about two small early 1900s copper mining towns? | & She has done her research, and the story she has written breathes life as a dragon breathes fire, burning sometimes accidentally, though oftentimes intentionally. GENERAL HISTORY, by The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction book. Gravity. I expected a story that was complex but very "human interest" in scope. “ 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… ; long history of failed attempts to reform or eliminate the electoral college—and warn of how little guidance it would actually provide in a close, hotly contested election, what gives those who witness injustice the moral courage to speak up, Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. The children were brought West by Catholic nuns on the little-known orphan trains that transported children of poor families across the country for adoption. And I would have loved to have known what happened to all those children in the end. Welcome back. Gordon (History/Univ. Must academic monographs be bone-achingly boring? September 2001; The American Journal of Legal History 106(2) DOI: 10.2307/2651678. It’s free and takes less than 10 seconds! At the end Gordon says that whether history has a happy ending is dependent upon when you stop telling the story. Elie Wiesel But, to turn this story into a textbook of the failings of the human societal condition in 1904, supported by studies and data about every negative aspect of the American experiment, is NOT the way this story should have been approached. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. | So good and then somewhat boring. Refresh and try again. This book also deals with the issue of gender and how women exercised their limited powers. Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children. Books About Racism Sell Out at Amazon, B&N. Spliced between each scene is the history—long-term and proximate—of the towns’ sociocultural landscape. This episode in Arizona history built upon the groundwork for the economic, political and racial views that founded the state, established it's elite classes, defined both the citizens and the non-citizens by color, religion and status, empowered women, particularly Anglo women, and drove the mining companies in the mountains in the Clifton-Morenci areas to achiev. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. Anyone familiar with children's books has probably read one of the many stories of orphans who were sent west by train from east coast orphanages to adoptive families. translated by However, it is much more than that. Global Supremacy, America’s rise to superpower status—and subsequent decline, 2000 Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association, Finalist, 2000 Willa Cather Literary Awards, Women Writing the West. The book was well-written by a Harvard prof and filled with footnotes. ‧ Orphan trains in themselves are complex issues. Gordon seemed to dig so deep and so far afield of the actual event to prove her points, that I found it irritating. GENERAL HISTORY This is a scholarly read - incredibly thoroughly researched and documented - and it does not ever attempt to read like anything else. It doesn't matter what the date is, what the town is, or what the state is: white folk are just not going to let the rights of anyone of a different color or persuasion be easily exercised. But to get there you have to sift through a history of racism, religious bigotry, unions, gender politics, classism....I get that there are probably very few documents besides court documents and no family stories about this era, but because of that calling the book "Orphan Abduction" is very misleading. The other part of American history I learned more about in this book than in most classroom history book is the tragic depth and complexity of the long-standing animosity between Americans and Mexicans. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Authors: Paula S. Fass. Gordon has written the rare history book that readers won—t be able to put down. Howard, he writes, “had always been one of the most critical gathering posts for black people.” He calls it The Mecca, and its faculty and his fellow students expanded his horizons, helping him to understand “that the black world was its own thing, more than a photo-negative of the people who believe they are white.” Coates refers repeatedly to whites’ insistence on their exclusive racial identity; he realizes now “that nothing so essentialist as race” divides people, but rather “the actual injury done by people intent on naming us, intent on believing that what they have named matters more than anything we could ever actually do.” After he married, the author’s world widened again in New York, and later in Paris, where he finally felt extricated from white America’s exploitative, consumerist dreams. This episode in Arizona history built upon the groundwork for the economic, political and racial views that founded the state, established it's elite classes, defined both the citizens and the non-citizens by color, religion and status, empowered women, particularly Anglo women, and drove the mining companies in the mountains in the Clifton-Morenci areas to achieve great wealth. Ta-Nehisi Coates What ensued was a custody battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Carp, Choice, “Gordon, drawing on interviews, newspapers, and the court transcript, recreates the kidnapping and the ensuing courtroom drama in intoxicating detail. Academic historians may enjoy this book, but I pity the students who find this title on their “Required Reading” list. © Copyright 2020 Kirkus Media LLC. In 1904 a young Catholic priest from France serving a parish in a copper mining camp in the mountains of Arizona helped the New York Foundling Hospital arrange for placements of Irish American orphans in his parish. This book was really informative and really opened my eyes about events that had happened in Arizona in the early 20th century. The book analyzes the racial nomenclature, classes, and relationships of the largely Anglo and Mexican townspeople of two Arizona copper mining towns in the early 1900's and the events surrounding the arrival of a train of orphans who were to be adopted by Catholic families, all of whom happened to be Mexican. HISTORY But in this case, the children, Irish Catholic children, are being delivered to mining towns to be fostered by Mexican Catholic parents. Such poor organization and lack of communication as to have something that big go wrong. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. ETHNICITY & RACE, by The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the... by At the center is her examination of the social construction of race; you won—t find a more illuminating or nuanced discussion of the invention of whiteness than Gordon’s. Linda Gordon uses the story of the abduction of forty white orphans originally promised to Mexican Catholic families in the border communities of Southeastern Arizona to explore issues of race, gender, and vigilantism. I found the whole story bizarre and interesting. 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.”—Stephen Lassonde, The New York Times Book Review, “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.”—Jeff Biggers, Bloomsbury Review, “If Gordon’s book did nothing more than redeem from obscurity the story of the Arizona orphans, it would be an extraordinary contribution to social history.
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