The book was well-written by a Harvard prof and filled with footnotes. Less focus on what happened during and after, more on how and why events unfolded that way in that specific time and place. Definitely a. Yes, of course. I have some very conflicting views about this book. The notion of sending orphans thousands of miles away to be adopted by strangers in a strange land sounds cruel and inhumane. As I read the book I thought it was very interesting, and I learned about events that I didn't know about before. This book alone could have set up all the major themes of my U.S. History course first quarter (1877-1919). | The powerful story of a father’s past and a son’s future. Yes, at some point you'll learn about this terrible part of our history, white people "rescuing" white orphaned children from a fate worse than death: being raised by a Mexican family. It is not a practice that we in our modern age would be part of, and I see a lot of negatives. The fact that minority (i.e., IR. ; However, the Anglos saw the children as white.
The book is almost like a novel with its vivid evocation of the situation. The few incidents that Gordon has about the subsequent experiences of the children are not very encouraging. The author fails to tie all of this into the subject of the book. Ta-Nehisi Coates As a challenge to preconceived notions of American history, as a reflection of cultural, religious and economic realities and as a how-to guide for retrieving important historical lessons, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction is fascinating, repelling and completely engrossing.”—Ian Graham, The Newark Star-Ledger, “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. HISTORY, by by Harvard University Press. This is a disturbing picture of our heritage, I have some very conflicting views about this book. BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
There are strains of religion in this book as well since the criteria for the sisters of the order were good catholic homes. |
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. In New York City the children were considered non-white because they were Irish. The women in the town prevailed upon the men to form a posse and to kidnap the children from the Mexican homes. Was the Catholic-run Foundling hospital viewing Catholicism as it's sole consideration, ignoring the bigotry against Mexicans, the problems with language barriers, and cultural differences....yes!
However, she is quick to point out that they may not be representative and that they only illustrate that what makes good parenting is difficult to determine. But in this case, the children, Irish Catholic children, are being delivered to mining towns to be fostered by Mexican Catholic parents. CourtneyTowner25. GENERAL HISTORY Gordon has written the rare history book that readers won—t be able to put down.
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction needs to be two separate books: The one that exists, with background material so extensive that you think it could have been written by James Michener, and one that is much shorter, containing little more than the chapters actually dealing with the orphans. I waited for details of the trial(s) or of the children and what happened to them after taken and pla. Read 52 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Rich, white racism at it's worst. At the center is her examination of the social construction of race; you won—t find a more illuminating or nuanced discussion of the invention of whiteness than Gordon’s. This story of children that became the rope in a tug of war between races and religions culminates in a Supreme Court decision that ruled the adoption to be “child abuse.” Her book also demonstrates how racially motivated many institutions in the United States were, and still, are.
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction.
RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1999, Microhistory at its best. 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. “I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next.” Coates grew up in the tough neighborhood of West Baltimore, beaten into obedience by his father. We’d love your help.
Magazine Subscribers (How to Find Your Reader Number). Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children. I waited for details of the trial(s) or of the children and what happened to them after taken and placed in the white families and was disappointed, which was the "theme" throughout the book. The class was divided fairly evenly among those who liked the structure of the book, those who liked the story but not the contextual chapters, and those who liked the contextual chapters but thought the story was irrelevant. Catherine Temerson, This moving, potent testament might have been titled “Black Lives Matter.” Or: “An American Tragedy.”, by This episode in Arizona history built upon the groundwork for the economic, political and racial views that founded the state, established it's elite classes, defined both the citizens and the non-citizens by color, religion and status, empowered women, particularly Anglo women, and drove the mining companies in the mountains in the Clifton-Morenci areas to achieve great wealth. Ms. Gordon made it evident that the white, mostly-Protestant Americans were not without flaw. |
Gordon has rendered a well-researched analysis of the social and racial factors that aroused passions enough to send posses to ‘rescue’ the children and that nearly lead to the lynching of a priest. The author is a good writer but the information written about had little to do with the abduction or the orphans; it was more statistics about races and race relations; the diffferences economically between hispanics and whites; the history of vigilantism....etc. This book will tell you about the expedition that led a Catholic agency in NYC to ship 40 Irish orphans to this small slice of AZ to be adopted by Mexican families in that area. What ensued was a custody battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The nuns, the catholic Mexican families and the priest, the protestant"white" families. The children were brought West by Catholic nuns on the little-known orphan trains that transported children of poor families across the country for adoption. & 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. The identities of each group of players involved in this minor-event-turned-supreme-court-case help Gordon successfully explore implications of class, gender, and race in early southwest US 20th century. Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry translated by That's what the book is for. We’re glad you found a book that interests you! Interesting narrative about a little known chapter in the Orphan Train movement around the turn of the last century. I think it must have been the author's thesis for a degree somewhere. The book analyzes the racial nomenclature, classes, and relationships of the largely Anglo and Mexican townspeople of two Arizona copper mining towns in the early 1900's and the events surrounding the arrival of a train of orphans who were to be adopted by Catholic families, all of whom happened to be Mexican. | This was the book that probably drew the most criticism from the grad students in HST 301, given that Gordon offers some conjectures about the thoughts and feelings of some of her subjects, but it's not obvious that she really has the evidence to back that up. Trouble signing in? The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. of Wisconsin-Madison) has long been a student of working-class and poor women, with a special interest in motherhood (Pitied But Not Entitled, 1994, traces the history of single mothers and welfare). Elie Wiesel, by Created by. Linda Gordon uses the story of the abduction of forty white orphans originally promised to Mexican Catholic families in the border communities of Southeastern Arizona to explore issues of race, gender, and vigilantism. A great deal of research went into the story, which is admirable, but make it hard to read through to the end.
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