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Author:

Jacobs, Margaret D., 1963-

Title:

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.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xxxii, 557 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Indigenous peoples--Cultural assimilation--United States.
Indigenous peoples--Cultural assimilation--Australia.
Stolen generations (Australia)
Indian children--Cultural assimilation--United States.
Children, Aboriginal Australian--Institutional care--Australia.
Indian children--Institutional care--United States.
Women, White.
Women social workers.
Weibliche Weiße.
Adoptivmutter.
Zwangsassimilation.
Heimerzieherin.
Elterliche Sorge.
Entziehung.
USA.
Indianer.
Australien.
Aborigines.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0803211007 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780803211001 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)268789976

LCCN:

2009002451

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)