| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Book Review

Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona. By Eric V. Meeks. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. xvi, 326 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-292-71698-8. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-292-71699-5.)
There is much to applaud in Eric V. Meeks's Border Citizens, a sweeping account of shifting racial hierarchies and resistance in Arizona. For Meeks, political economy was key to eventual Anglo dominance and the solidification of once-permeable racial categories. At the same time, the book argues that Arizona's racial "others" (namely, its Tohono O'odham, Yaqui, and ethnic Mexican peoples) repeatedly challenged Anglo supremacy. At the core of the book, therefore, is that tension between racial subordination and creative forms of resistance.	1
The book proceeds chronologically, with alternating chapters on Native American and Mexican-origin Arizonians. After an excellent introductory chapter, which includes valuable explanations of concepts such as cultural citizenship and resistant adaptation, the book's next chapter describes Arizona's uneven political and economic incorporation into the United States in the nineteenth century. The following two chapters address developing racial hierarchies and individual and communal responses to Anglo attempts to establish a fixed racial order. In both chapters, the hardening of racial boundaries is a major theme. The following chapter explores a similar process, the consolidation of white racial identity, with special emphasis on the inclusion of working-class European immigrants into the privileged core of whiteness.	. . .

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