| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.2

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Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona. By Eric V. Meeks. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. xiii + 326 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliographies, index. $60.00, cloth; $24.95, paper.)

In recent years, Arizona has been at the center of intense debates over citizenship, culture, and national sovereignty. Armed groups patrol the state's southern border, state laws attempt to regulate undocumented immigration, and lawmakers claim that multiculturalism in the state's schools undermines a common national identity. Border Citizens complicates the overly simplistic view of rigid and immutable borders that dominates the conversation. 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.

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