Taking assimilation to heart : marriages of white women and indigenous men in the United States and Australia, 1887-1937 / Katherine Ellinghaus.

ISBN: 080321829X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780803218291
Physical Description: xxxiv, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.

Summary:

"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.