| #657548 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2011-03-04 | 2011-02-07 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.28 x1.00 x6.12l,1.34 | File type: PDF | 384 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Revealing|By Torrie's Books|As a historian, the book was well written, extensively researched, and easy to digest. Author does a great job of showing how race was dealt with in one Arizona county, not a subject easily discussed. Only downside was a seeming lack of information regarding Blacks and Native Americans. However a must for historians examining borderlands behavior|From Publishers Weekly|In 2005, a, rancher and newspaper editor named Chris Simcox set out to maintain the border between the southwestern states and Mexico. He and his Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, dedicated to reporting undocumented migrants crossing into the
“Are you an American, or are you not?” This was the question Harry Wheeler, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, used to choose his targets in one of the most remarkable vigilante actions ever carried out on U.S. soil. And this is the question at the heart of Katherine Benton-Cohen’s provocative history, which ties that seemingly remote corner of the country to one of America’s central concerns: the historical creation of racial boundaries.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands | Katherine Benton-Cohen.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.