White man's club : schools, race, and the struggle of Indian acculturation /

White man's club : schools, race, and the struggle of Indian acculturation /

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"A far-reaching and bold account of the larger issues at stake, White Man's Club challenges previous studies for overemphasizing the reformers' overtly optimistic assessment of the Indians' capacity for assimilation and contends that a covertly racial agenda characterized this ed...

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Main Author: Fear-Segal, Jacqueline
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.
Series:Indigenous education.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Education.
Indians of North America > Government relations.
Indians of North America > Social conditions.
Education and state > United States > History.
Discrimination in education > United States > History.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Social policy.
Table of Contents:
  • White theories : can the Indian be educated?
  • Native views : "a new road for all the Indians"
  • Mission schools in the West : precursors of a system
  • Samuel Chapman Armstrong : educator of backward races
  • Thomas Wildcat Alford : Shawnee educated in two worlds
  • Richard Henry Pratt : national universalist
  • Carlisle Campus : landscape of race and erasure
  • Man-on-the-bandstand : surveillance, concealment, and resistance
  • Indian school cemetery : telling remains
  • Kesetta : memory and recovery
  • Susie Rayos Marmon : storytelling and teaching.

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