The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Gordon, Linda
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Gordon, Linda

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction

In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be...
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Author: Linda Gordon
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The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Gordon, Linda

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction

$105.33
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Gordon, Linda

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction

$105.33
Author: Linda Gordon
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In 1904, 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 transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. 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.

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. Racial walls hardened as the mines became big business and whiteness became a marker of superiority. These already volatile race and class relations produced passions that erupted in the orphan incident. To the Anglos of Clifton/Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, and they saw their kidnapping as a rescue.

Women initiated both sides of this confrontation. Mexican women agreed to take in these orphans, both serving their church and asserting a maternal prerogative; Anglo women believed they had to save the orphans, and they organized a vigilante squad to do it. In retelling this nearly forgotten piece of American history, Linda Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values, in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the best interests of the child.

Author: Linda Gordon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 04/02/2001
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.23w x 1.12d
ISBN: 9780674005358


Award: WILLA Literary Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/15/2001 pg. 28

About the Author
Gordon, Linda: - Linda Gordon is Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of the now-classic history of birth control in America, Woman's Body, Woman's Right, and of Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, winner of the American Historical Association's Joan Kelly Prize for the best book in women's history.

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