List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Preface: White Mother to a Dark Race
Acknowledgments
A Note on Terms
Abbreviations
1. Gender and Settler Colonialism in the North American West and Australia
2. Designing Indigenous Child Removal Policies
3. The Great White Mother
4. The Practice of Indigenous Child Removal
5. Intimate Betrayals
6. Groomed to Be Useful
7. Maternalism in the Institutions
8. Out of the Frying Pan
9. Challenging Indigenous Child Removal
Epilogue
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Examines the roles of white women in Australia's and the United States' policies of indigenous child-removal and education.
Margaret D. Jacobs is a professor of history and the director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879–1934 (Nebraska 1999).
"This book deserves wide readership in U.S. western history,
women's history, Indian history, and comparative ethnic
studies."—Peggy Pascoe, Montana, the Magazine of Western
History
"[Jacobs] has taken the study of these nineteenth and early
twentieth century institutionalizing policies in a rewarding new
direction. . . . I highly recommend this book to anyone who is
interested in indigenous studies, women's studies, and the history
of intercultural relations in colonizing situations like the
American West."—Nancy J. Parezo, Journal of Arizona History
"Jacobs' focus on the role of white women, and specifically the
function of maternalism, generates important insights into the
interrelationship between race and gender in the creation of the
modern white nation. Attention to the specificities of colonial
regimes in the different locations of Australia and the American
West—revealing the uncanny similarities as well as significant
differences—can only enhance our critical understanding."—Trish
Luker, International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies
"[Margaret D. Jacobs] has produced a balanced, meticulously
researched book filled with heartbreaking stories of loss and
uplifting accounts of survival."—Lynette Russell, Great Plains
Quarterly
"This study stands as an excellent model and should encourage
further comparisons between federal Indian policy and other
maternalist projects within the United States as well as intimate
strategies in other colonial regimes."—Cathleen D. Cahill, Western
Historical Quarterly
"[White Mother to a Dark Race is] a monumental comparative
study."—Cristina Stanciu, SAIL
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