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Who Was American in the 1917 Southwest
An interview with Katherine Benton-Cohen
August 2, 2009

Professor Katherine Benton-Cohen discusses her new book "Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands” (Harvard University Press).  Focusing on a famous labor conflict known as the Bisbee Deportation of 1917, Benton-Cohen discusses the meaning of race in an area—including Wyatt Earp’s Tombstone—whose promise of land and work drew seekers of all nationalities.  The Arizona border became a virtual social laboratory in which Americans worked out what it meant to be "white," and indeed what it meant to be "American."

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