In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp to be placed with Mexican Catholic families. The interracial conflict leads to conflict, violence and lenghty court battles.
In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town?s Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigil…
In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigila…
"By recreating his parents' generation as well as his own, Portales encourages readers to consider Latino progress since the days of his youth during the Eisenhower fifties, years that coalesced into the gradual unfurling of his ethnic consciousness." "Working within a tradition…
