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Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887-1937
Katherine Ellinghaus
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Paperback. Examines marriages between white women and indigenous men in Australia and the United States between 1887 and 1937. This study of the ideological and political context of marriages between white women and indigenous men uncovers striking differences between the policies of assimilation endorsed by Australia and those encouraged by the US. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MBF; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
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.
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.
This study of the ideological and political context of marriages between white women and indigenous men uncovers striking differences between the policies of assimilation endorsed by Australia and ... Read more
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.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803224872
SKU
V9780803224872
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About Katherine Ellinghaus
Katherine Ellinghaus a Hansen Lecturer in History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Assimilation Policy (Nebraska, 2017) and coeditor of Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of Identity.
Reviews for Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887-1937
"Ellinghaus's study offers insights on racism and prejudice within the United States and Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and how public policy and private lives were affected by these phenomena... This book is valuable for its illuminating transnational analysis and for the opportunity it provides for Australians and Americans to reflect on their own histories of ... Read more