White Mother to a Dark Race

Informationen zum Autor Margaret D. Jacobs is a professor of history and the director of the Women s and Gender Studies Program at the University of NebraskäLincoln. She is the author of Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879 1934 (Nebraska 1999). Klappentext Margaret D. Jacobs is a 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). Zusammenfassung In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries! American Indians in the United States and Aboriginal people in Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilation. White Mother to a Dark Race examines the key roles white women played in these removal policies. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Maps Preface: White Mother to a Dark Race Acknowledgments A Note on Terms Abbreviations 1. Gender and Settler Colonialism in the North American West and Australia 2. Designing Indigenous Child Removal Policies 3. The Great White Mother 4. The Practice of Indigenous Child Removal 5. Intimate Betrayals 6. Groomed to Be Useful 7. Maternalism in the Institutions 8. Out of the Frying Pan 9. Challenging Indigenous Child Removal Epilogue Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

Klappentext

Margaret D. Jacobs is a 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).

Zusammenfassung
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American Indians in the United States and Aboriginal people in Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilation. White Mother to a Dark Race examines the key roles white women played in these removal policies.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Preface: White Mother to a Dark Race

Acknowledgments

A Note on Terms

Abbreviations

1. Gender and Settler Colonialism in the North American West and Australia

2. Designing Indigenous Child Removal Policies

3. The Great White Mother

4. The Practice of Indigenous Child Removal

5. Intimate Betrayals

6. Groomed to Be Useful

7. Maternalism in the Institutions

8. Out of the Frying Pan

9. Challenging Indigenous Child Removal

Epilogue

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index