White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940

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U of Nebraska Press, 2009/07/01 - 557 ページ
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilating American Indians and protecting Aboriginal people. Although officially characterized as benevolent, these government policies often inflicted great trauma on indigenous families and ultimately served the settler nations? larger goals of consolidating control over indigenous peoples and their lands.
White Mother to a Dark Racetakes the study of indigenous education and acculturation in new directions in its examination of the key roles white women played in these policies of indigenous child-removal. Government officials, missionaries, and reformers justified the removal of indigenous children in particularly gendered ways by focusing on the supposed deficiencies of indigenous mothers, the alleged barbarity of indigenous men, and the lack of a patriarchal nuclear family. Often they deemed white women the most appropriate agents to carry out these child-removal policies. Inspired by the maternalist movement of the era, many white women were eager to serve as surrogate mothers to indigenous children and maneuvered to influence public policy affecting indigenous people. Although some white women developed caring relationships with indigenous children and others became critical of government policies, many became hopelessly ensnared in this insidious colonial policy.
 

目次

1 Gender and Settler Colonialism in the North American West and Australia
1
2 Designing Indigenous Child Removal Policies
25
3 The Great White Mother
87
4 The Practice of Indigenous Child Removal
149
5 Intimate Betrayals
193
6 Groomed to Be Useful
229
7 Maternalism in the Institutions
281
8 Out of the Frying Pan
329
9 Challenging Indigenous Child Removal
371
Epilogue
425
Afterword
435
Notes
439
Bibliography
499
Index
529
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Margaret D. Jacobs is an associate professor of history and the director of the Women?s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Nebraska?Lincoln. She is the author of Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879?1934 (Nebraska 1999).

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