Education and the racial dynamics of settler colonialism in early America : Georgia and South Carolina, ca. 1700-ca. 1820 / James O'Neil Spady.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spady, James O'Neil, 1968- author.

Series:

Routledge advances in American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people--Georgia--Relations with Indians--History.

White people.

White people--South Carolina--Relations with Indians--History.

Enslaved persons--Education--Georgia--History.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved persons--Education--South Carolina--History.

Racism in education--Georgia--History.

Racism in education.

Racism in education--South Carolina--History.

Race relations.

History.

Enslaved persons--Education.

Relations with Indians.

Georgia--Race relations--History.

Georgia.

South Carolina--Race relations--History.

South Carolina.

White people--Relations with Indians.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 261 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"This is the first historical monograph to demonstrate settler colonialism's significance for Early America. Based on a nuanced reading of the archive and using a comparative approach, the book treats settler colonialism as a process rather than a coherent ideology. Spady shows that learning was a central site of colonial struggle in the South, in which Native Americans, Africans, and European settlers acquired and exploited each other's knowledge and practices. Learned skills, attitudes, and ideas shaped the economy and culture of the region and produced challenges to colonial authority. Factions of enslaved people and of Native American communities devised new survival and resistance strategies. Their successful learning challenged settler projects and desires, and white settlers gradually responded. Three developments arose as a pattern of racialization: settlers tried to prohibit literacy for the enslaved, remove indigenous communities, and initiate some of North America's earliest schools for poorer whites. Fully instituted by the end of the 1820s, settler colonization's racialization of learning in the South endured beyond the Civil War and Reconstruction"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Spady, James O'Neil, 1968- Education and the racial dynamics of settler colonialism in early America.

ISBN:

9780367437169

0367437163

OCLC:

1128891395

Publisher Number:

99984288824