White mother to a dark race : settler colonialism, maternalism, and the removal of indigenous children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940 /

White mother to a dark race : settler colonialism, maternalism, and the removal of indigenous children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940 / Margaret D. Jacobs.

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Main Author: Jacobs, Margaret D., 1963-
Corporate Author: American Council of Learned Societies.
Format: Unknown
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.
Series:ACLS Fellowsђ́ة publications.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples > Cultural assimilation > United States.
Indigenous peoples > Cultural assimilation > Australia.
Stolen generations (Australia)
Indian children > Cultural assimilation > United States.
Children, Aboriginal Australian > Institutional care > Australia.
Indian children > Institutional care > United States.
Women, White.
Women social workers.
Table of Contents:
  • Gender and settler colonialism in the North American West and Australia
  • Designing indigenous child removal policies
  • The great white mother
  • The practice of indigenous child removal
  • Intimate betrayals
  • Groomed to be useful
  • Maternalism in the institutions
  • Out of the frying pan
  • Challenging indigenous child removal.

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