Taking Assimilation to Heart Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887-1937  -  Katherine Ellinghaus

KORTE INHOUD

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 ...
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Uitgever: University Of Nebraska Press 276 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0803224877 ISBN-13: 9780803224872