However, it is much more than that.

There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions. Catherine Temerson, This moving, potent testament might have been titled “Black Lives Matter.” Or: “An American Tragedy.”, by Racial walls hardened as the mines became big business and whiteness became a marker of superiority. The chapters are intercut with descriptions of the event by day. But in Arizona, where the “other” was dark-skinned and spoke a language even more foreign to “white” ears than an Irish brogue, the children were suddenly as white as George Washington. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Reviewed on: 11/01/1999 Release date: 11/01/1999 Genre: Nonfiction Paperback - 432 pages - 978-0-674-00535-8. Having picked it up to read about a dramatic moment history, I was somewhat disappointed to be reading more of a general history. Unfortunately, the writing is competent but dull, the story belabored to the point of exhaustion, and I couldn't blame the students for wearying of the book when I found it tedious myself.

Less focus on what happened during and after, more on how and why events unfolded that way in that specific time and place. Her account of the trial and of the newspaper coverage of the event makes one disbelieve in law and in reporting. This is a fine grained analysis of a specific incident that tells much about the attitudes in the United States, particularly out west about race, but also about class and gender. 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. Elie Wiesel Carp, Choice, “Gordon, drawing on interviews, newspapers, and the court transcript, recreates the kidnapping and the ensuing courtroom drama in intoxicating detail. In 1904, Catholic nuns in New York sent 40 Irish children on an "orphan train" to a small Arizona mining town, where they would be cared for by Catholic families—Mexican Catholic families. Were the Anglo families who became incensed by the children's arrival to be placed in the Mexican homes, totally wrong for the way they handled the situation? Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published It is a history of the mining town and the racism of whites towards Mexicans. 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. I found the whole story bizarre and interesting. It wasn't good, and it would take far longer than I am willing to spend to try to explain it. Or sin. | Trouble signing in? RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1999, Microhistory at its best. More than 300 pages of substantiation that white folk discriminate with all their might against nonwhite folk -- this cannot be a surprise to ANYone in this country! The nuns, the catholic Mexican families and the priest, the protestant"white" families. translated by Test. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the... by You want. Key Concepts: Terms in this set (27) What is the basic conflict at the center of the book? I have some very conflicting views about this book.

RELEASE DATE: July 8, 2015. Raciscm was obvious but I have to admit I have mixed feelings about the whole incident especially for that day and age. In New York City the children were considered non-white because they were Irish. If you're looking an interesting presentation of the social history of that time, this would be a delight. 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. Such poor organization and lack of communication as to have something that big go wrong. 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 Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. But covering the actual abduction could have been covered in a short article. We've got you covered with the buzziest new releases of the day.

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If the title had been "Gender Politics and Racism Related to the 1903 Arizona Orphan Adoption" I might have given it more stars. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. The few incidents that Gordon has about the subsequent experiences of the children are not very encouraging. Really?

Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry Must academic monographs be bone-achingly boring? & (There's very little about what happened afterward for the families involved, though idk if there was any available information anyway. |

They got white on the train to Arizona. Linda Gordon

RELEASE DATE: Jan. 16, 2006. I found the whole story biza. Are those same powers still exerting those impacts?

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She is the author of numerous books and won the Bancroft Prize for, Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Nominee for Multicultural Nonfiction (Finalist) (2000), Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award (2000), Born in the 1950s - What we've read in 2015, Microhistories: Microscopic Studies of Individual Events, People and Places. In New York City the children were considered non, This is an account of the attempt of the Catholic Foundling Home in New York City to place some Irish orphans with Mexican parents in a mining community in Arizona. Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.

It is a socio-economic-gender-racial study of the period around the turn of the twentieth century, and specifically dealing with two Arizona mining towns. The author fails to tie all of this into the subject of the book. Retrieve credentials. Must they? I was fascinated with the Arizona history. Gordon began with great raw material: a gripping tale that sounds more like the plot of a TV mini-series than the subject of a university press book. Gordon does a masterful job probing class and race, gender and religion, family and border economics to shed light on conflicts unresolved to this day… She has crafted both an exhilarating yarn and a sober morality tale.”—Karen R. Long, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Gordon’s account takes place in six scenes, with historical interludes between them. There is an extended discussion of vigilantism that is quite enlightening. Linda Gordon, by