"Taking Assimilation to Heart examines marriages between white women and indigenous men in Australia and the United States between 1887 and 1937. In these settler societies, white women were expected to reproduce white children to keep the white race "pure" - hence special anxieties were associated with their sexuality, and marriages with indigenous men were rare events. As such, these interracial marriages illuminate the complicated social, racial, and national contexts in which they occurred." "Shifting from the personal to the local to the transnational, Taking Assimilation to Heart extends our understanding of the ways in which individual lives have been part of the culture of colonialism."--BOOK JACKET.
Record details
ISBN:080321829X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN:9780803218291
Physical Description:xxxiv, 276 p. : ill ; 24 cm. print
Publisher:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Native American education and marriages at Hampton Institute -- 2. Interracial marriages of male Carlisle Indian School alumni -- 3. Educated Native American men and interracial marriage -- 4. A middle-class white woman philanthropist and interracial marriage -- 5. The broken promise of Aboriginal education in Australia -- 6. Regulating Aboriginal marriages in Victoria -- 7. White women married to Aboriginal men -- 8. Solving the "Indian problem" in the United States -- 9. Absorbing the "Aboriginal problem" in Australia.
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