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Author Benton-Cohen, Katherine

Title Borderline Americans : racial division and labor war in the Arizona borderlands / Katherine Benton-Cohen
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (367 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents A shared world in Tres Alamos -- Race and conflict in tombstone -- The white man's camp in Bisbee -- "A better man for us" in Warren -- Mormons and Mexicans in the San Pedro River Valley -- Women and men in the Sulphur Springs and San Simon Valleys -- The Bisbee deportation -- One country, two races
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-348) and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Working class -- Arizona -- Cochise County -- History
Labor movement -- Arizona -- Cochise County -- History
Labor disputes -- Arizona -- Cochise County -- History
Social conflict -- Arizona -- Cochise County -- History
Racism -- Arizona -- Cochise County -- History
Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona -- Cochise County
Copper Miners' Strike, Bisbee, Ariz., 1917.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Economic history
Frontier and pioneer life
Labor disputes
Labor movement
Race relations
Racism
Social conflict
Social conditions
Working class
Sozialer Konflikt
Rassismus
Arbeiterklasse
Arbeiterbewegung
SUBJECT Cochise County (Ariz.) -- Economic conditions
Cochise County (Ariz.) -- Race relations
Cochise County (Ariz.) -- Social conditions
Mexican-American Border Region -- History
Subject Arizona -- Bisbee
Arizona -- Cochise County
North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
Cochise County, Ariz.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674053557
0674053559