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Borderline Americans

Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands

Katherine Benton-Cohen

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$31.00 • £26.95 • €28.95

ISBN 9780674060531

Publication Date: 03/04/2011

384 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

20 halftones, 4 maps

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Katherine Benton-Cohen is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University.

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At the Washington Post, read Katherine Benton-Cohen on how political stonewalling in Cochise County, Arizona regarding the 2022 election results mirrors the political mood elsewhere in the United States
At Lapham’s Quarterly, read Benton-Cohen’s overview of the “Bisbee Deportation,” in which over a thousand striking mineworkers and their supporters were kidnapped and illegally deported in one of the largest vigilante actions in American history
Visit the website for Bisbee ’17, a nonfiction feature film on which Benton-Cohen served as historical advisor, which commemorates the centennial of the Bisbee Deportation
At the HUP Blog, read Benton-Cohen’s essay marking the centennial of the Bisbee Deportation

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