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The art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School Hayes Peter Mauro
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA/Cu E 97.6 .C2 M28 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mauro, Hayes Peter, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)--History.
- United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.).
- Indians of North America--Education--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--History.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--History.
- Indians of North America--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--Ethnic identity--History.
- Indians of North America--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--History--Pictorial works.
- Americanization--History.
- Americanization.
- Art--Political aspects--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--History.
- Art.
- Photography--Political aspects--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--History.
- Photography.
- Propaganda--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--History.
- Propaganda.
- Racism in education--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--History.
- Racism in education.
- Physical Description:
- 178 pages, [65] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Established by an act of Congress in 1879, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in central Pennsylvania was conceived as a paramilitary residential boarding school that would solve the then-pressing "Indian Question" by forcibly assimilating and Americanizing Native American youth. A major part of this process was the "before and after" portrait, which displayed the individual in his or her allegedly degenerate state before Americanization, and then again following its conclusion. In this historical study, Mauro analyzes the visual imagery produced at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as a specific instance of the aesthetics of Americanization at work. His work combines a consideration of cultural contexts and themes specific to the United States of the time and critical theory to flesh out innovative historical readings of the photographic materials.
- Contents:
- The "savage" and antebellum science
- Producing the Indian : indexing and pathologizing the Native American
- Producing Americans : photography and indoctrination at Carlisle
- Photography and indoctrination II : the before-and-after portrait
- Publicizing the "civilized" savage.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Indian Rights Association Complementary Collection.
- ISBN:
- 9780826349200
- 082634920X
- OCLC:
- 670211576
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