Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona
Border Citizens serves as a model for future borderlands scholarship... This text will serve as a doorway for students in courses on the West, Chicano/a history, and Native American history to engage each other's respective themes by looking at the way they affect, relate, and respond to other groups. (Raul A. Ramos,Pacific Historical Review2008-01-00)Border Citizens is an exceptional work... While making a significant contribution to the historiography of Arizona and the Southwest, this book will appeal to anyone interested in Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies, Mexican American Studies, and Border Studies. (Oscar MartinezJournal of Arizona History2008-01-00)Meeks has produced perhaps the definitive account of Southern Arizona's economic and political development while making a strong case for the absolute centrality of race in determining who benefited from these processes. (Jeff SchulzeAmerican Indian Culture and Research Journal2008-01-00)This impressive and thoroughly researched study provides a timely intervention, probing the history of the Arizona/Sonora borderlands and the interconnection between peoples and cultures of the region. Significantly, it reveals how changing conceptions of citizenship and race were central to the formation of the state and offers insight into why they continue to matter in the present. (Monica PeralesThe Western Historical Quarterly2009-06-00)By not giving primacy to any ethnic/racial group and by utilizing the scholarship of Native American, Borderlands, Chicana/o, labor, and race studies, Meeks reveals how complex cultural citizenship and nation building have been in Arizona’s past, and from this remarkable work we can only surmise that it will continue to be so in the future. (Maria Raquel CasasAmerican Historical Review2010-06-00)