Ebook {Epub PDF} The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon

 · Wet, chilled and exhausted, some of the children were sick to their stomachs. A clutch of Anglo women put them to bed in blankets on the floor, but they didn't settle down, understandably, until 2. Linda Gordon is the Florence Kelley Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of numerous books and won the Bancroft Prize for The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. /5(56). Linda Gordon's The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction is a spellbinding narrative history—the kind of rigorous but engaging work that other academics dream of writing. 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 Price: $

"The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction" by Linda Gordon Submitted by Niels on Mon, A historian unearths a bizarre-but-true story of New York nuns, Irish Catholic orphans, their Mexican-American would-be parents and a white Protestant lynch mob. Linda Gordon. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Harvard University Press, In , New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. “ 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 Gordon divides her story into six scenes, most of them devoted to some portion of the four days when the orphans’ arrival engulfed Clifton-Morenci. Historian and professor Laura Gordon’s The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction () is a historical account of the fate of a few dozen orphans in the U.S. It centers around a Supreme Court decision on the welfare of these orphans, as well as a vivid four-day event in Arizona where white women coordinated the abduction of forty orphans so that they wouldn’t be placed with Mexican-American families.