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

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248186103316
• Autore: Jacobs Margaret D. <1963->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2009; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2012; ©2009
• ISBN: 1-282-13112-5; 9786612131127; 0-8032-2457-5; 9780803224575
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxii, 557 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 305.89915
• Soggetti: Women social workers; Women, Aboriginal Australian; Children, Aboriginal Australia; Women, White; Indian children - Institutional care - United States; Children, Aboriginal Australian - Institutional care - Australia; Indian children - Cultural assimilation - United States; Stolen generations (Australia); Indigenous peoples - Cultural assimilation - Australia; Indigenous peoples - Cultural assimilation - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous ; communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilating American Indians and protecting Aboriginal people. Although officially characterized as benevolent, these government policies often inflicted great trauma on indigenous families and ultimately served the settler nations' larger goals of consolidating control over indigenous peoples and their lands.