{"id":13002,"date":"2011-03-31T01:56:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T01:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13002"},"modified":"2013-02-08T21:25:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T21:25:35","slug":"undermining-race-ethnic-identities-in-arizona-copper-camps-1880-1920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13002","title":{"rendered":"Undermining Race: Ethnic Identities in Arizona Copper Camps, 1880-1920"},"content":{"rendered":"

Undermining Race: Ethnic Identities in Arizona Copper Camps, 1880-1920<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Arizona Press
\n<\/a>2009
\n240 pages
\n6.0 x 9.0
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2745-8<\/p>\n

Phylis Cancilla Martinelli<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology
\nSaint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, California<\/em><\/p>\n

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Undermining Race<\/em> rewrites the history of race, immigration, and labor in the copper industry in Arizona<\/a>. The book focuses on the case of Italian immigrants in their relationships with Anglo, Mexican, and Spanish miners (and at times with blacks, Asian Americans, and Native Americans), requiring a reinterpretation of the way race was formed and figured across place and time.<\/p>\n

Phylis Martinelli argues that the case of Italians in Arizona provides insight into \u201cin between\u201d racial and ethnic categories, demonstrating that the categorizing of Italians varied from camp to camp depending on local conditions\u2014such as management practices in structuring labor markets and workers\u2019 housing, and the choices made by immigrants in forging communities of language and mutual support. Italians\u2014even light-skinned northern Italians\u2014were not considered completely \u201cwhite\u201d in Arizona at this historical moment, yet neither were they consistently racialized as non-white<\/strong>, and tactics used to control them ranged from micro to macro level violence.<\/p>\n

To make her argument, Martinelli looks closely at two \u201cwhite camps\u201d in Globe<\/a> and Bisbee<\/a> and at the Mexican camp of Clifton-Morenci<\/a>. Comparing and contrasting the placement of Italians in these three camps shows how the usual binary system of race relations became complicated, which in turn affected the existing race-based labor hierarchy, especially during strikes. The book provides additional case studies to argue that the biracial stratification system in the United States was in fact triracial at times. <\/strong>According to Martinelli, this system determined the nature of the associations among laborers as well as the way Americans came to construct \u201cwhiteness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Undermining Race: Ethnic Identities in Arizona Copper Camps, 1880-1920 University of Arizona Press 2009 240 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2745-8 Phylis Cancilla Martinelli, Professor of Sociology Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, California Undermining Race rewrites the history of race, immigration, and labor in the copper industry in Arizona. The book focuses on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,17,394,20],"tags":[5202,5845,5844,5846,1486],"class_list":["post-13002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-arizona","tag-phylis-c-martinelli","tag-phylis-cancilla-martinelli","tag-phylis-martinelli","tag-university-of-arizona-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}