White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940
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"Sheds new light on the role of white women reformers and missionaries in efforts to “civilize” and acculturate indigenous peoples by removing native children from their families and placing them under white tutelage in boarding schools or white households."
Recommended by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and author of Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America.