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Taking Assimilation to Heart Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887-1937 / Katherine Ellinghaus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellinghaus, Katherine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Education--Social aspects.
- Indians of North America.
- Women, White--Family relationships--Australia--History--19th century.
- Women, White.
- Women, White--Family relationships--United States--History--19th century.
- Aboriginal Australians--Social conditions--19th century.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Indians of North America--Social conditions--19th century.
- Aboriginal Australians--Cultural assimilation--History--19th century.
- Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--History--19th century.
- Interracial marriage--Australia--History--19th century.
- Interracial marriage.
- Interracial marriage--United States--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines marriages between white women and indigenous men in Australia and the United States between 1887 and 1937. This study uncovers striking differences between the policies of assimilation endorsed by Australia and those encouraged by the United States.
- Contents:
- Native American education and marriages at Hampton Institute
- Interracial marriages of male Carlisle Indian school alumni
- Educated Native American men and interracial marriage
- A middle-class white woman philanthropist and interracial marriage
- The broken promise of aboriginal education in Australia
- Regulating aboriginal marriages in Victoria
- White women married to aboriginal men
- Solving the "Indian problem" in the United States
- Absorbing the "aboriginal problem" in Australia.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610550821
- 9781280550829
- 1280550821
- 9780803257351
- 080325735X
- OCLC:
- 476151804
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