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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 those encouraged by the United States. White Australians emphasized biological absorption, in which indigenous identity would be dissolved through interracial relationships, while white Americans promoted cultural assimilation, attempting to alter the lifestyles of indigenous people rather than their physical appearance. This disparity led, in turn, to differing emphases on humanitarian reforms, education policies, and social mobility, which affected the social status of the white women and indigenous men who married each other.

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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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.
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"[A] fascinating account . . . . [A] meaningful contribution to our understandings of the histories of colonialism and, in particular, of how the processes of colonialism produced similar power relations across many different times and places." -- Katherine Pace "Lilith"

?[A] fascinating account . . . . [A] meaningful contribution to our understandings of the histories of colonialism and, in particular, of how the processes of colonialism produced similar power relations across many different times and places. Lilith -- Katherine Pace "Lilith"

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  • PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 0803224877
  • ISBN 13 9780803224872
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages312

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