Title: The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
Author: Linda Gordon
Year of Publication: 1999
Thesis:
Using the story of predominantly Catholic Mexican Americans who adopted Irish orphans and the backlash from the predominantly Protestant and white community in Clifton, Arizona, Gordon demonstrates the fluidity of whiteness during this period. Orphaned Irish children essentially "became" white as they arrived in Clifton. Using oral interviews, Gordon explores how a major strike in this mining town was so connected to this issue. "Abduction" serves a double meaning, where Mexican Americans were considered undeserving abductors by white people were attempting to abduct legally adopted children while threatening violence.
Time: 1904-5
Geography: New York and Arizona
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Preface
Cast of Principle Characters
October 2, 1904, Night: North Clifton, Arizona
September 25, 1904: Grand Central Station, New York City
Chapter 1. King Copper
October 1, 1904, 6:30 P.M.: Clifton Railroad Station
Chapter 2. Mexicans Come to the Mines
October 1, 1904, around 7:30 P.M.: Sacred Heart Church, Clifton
Chapter 3. The Priest in hte Mexican Camp
October 2, 1904, Afternoon, Morenci Square and Clifton Library Hall
Chapter 4. The Mexican Mothers and the Mexican Town
October 2, 1904, Evening, The Hills of Clifton
Chapter 5. The Anglo Mothers and the Company Town
October 2, 1904, Night: Clifton Hotel
Chapter 6. The Strike
October 3-4, 1904: Clifton Drugstore and Library Hall, Morenci Htel
Chapter 7. Vigilantism
January 1904: Courtroom of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, Phoenix
Chapter 8. Family and Race
Epilogue
- So fascinating that the orphan story (1904) for most respondents in oral interviews was read through the lens of the 1983 strike.
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