White mother to a dark race
Subtitle: settler colonialism, maternalism, and the removal of indigenous children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940
By: Margaret D. Jacobs.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780803211001
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender and settler colonialism in the North American West and Australia; title: Designing indigenous child removal policies; title: The great white mother; title: The practice of indigenous child removal; title: Intimate betrayals; title: Groomed to be useful; title: Maternalism in the institutions; title: Out of the frying pan; title: Challenging indigenous child removal.