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Border citizens : the making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona /

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Borders cut through not just places but also relationships, politics, economics and cultures. Eric V. Meeks examines how ethno-racial categories and identities such as Indian, Mexican and Anglo crystallized in Arizona's borderlands between 1880 and 1980. South-central Arizona is home to many et...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meeks, Eric V. (Author)
Other Authors: Limerick, Patricia Nelson, 1951- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2020]
Edition:Revised edition.
Subjects:
Arizona > Ethnic relations > History > 19th century.
Arizona > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Ethnicity > Arizona > History.
Indians of North America > Arizona > Ethnic identity > History.
Mexican Americans > Arizona > Ethnic identity > History.
Whites > Race identity > Arizona > History.
Ethnic barriers > Arizona > History.
Social structure > Arizona > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Desert empire
  • From noble savage to second-class citizen
  • Crossing borders
  • Defining the white citizen-worker
  • The Indian new deal and the politics of the tribe
  • Shadows in the sun belt
  • The Chicano movement and cultural citizenship
  • Villages, tribes, and nations
  • Conclusion. Borders old and new
  • Afterword. A twenty-first century borderland.