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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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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Jacobs, Margaret D., 1963-
Contributor:
ProQuest ebook central.
Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Indigenous peoples--Cultural assimilation--United States.
Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous peoples--Cultural assimilation--Australia.
Stolen generations (Australia).
Indian children--Cultural assimilation--United States.
Indian children.
Children, Aboriginal Australian--Institutional care--Australia.
Children, Aboriginal Australian.
Indian children--Institutional care--United States.
Women, White.
Women social workers.
Indian children--Institutional care.
Children, Aboriginal Australian--Institutional care.
Assimilation (Sociology).
Indigenous peoples--Cultural assimilation.
United States.
Australia.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxxii, 557 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Other Title:
Settler colonialism, maternalism, and the removal of indigenous children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940
Place of Publication:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2009]
System Details:
text file
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.
Notes:
"2010 winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Athearn Western History Association Prize, and the Armitage-Jameson Prize."--Pbk. back cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-528) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Bancroft Prize, 2010.
Coalition for Western Women's History Armitage-Jameson Award, 2010.
Western History Association Robert G. Athearn Award, 2010.
Description based on print version record.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.
ISBN:
9780803224575
0803224575
Publisher Number:
99985067046
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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