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White Man's Club - Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation (Paperback)
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White Man's Club - Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation (Paperback)
Series: Indigenous Education
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Tens of thousands of Indian children filed through the gates of
government schools to be trained as United States citizens. Part of
a late-nineteenth-century campaign to eradicate Native cultures and
communities, these institutions became arenas where whites debated
the terms of Indian citizenship, but also where Native peoples
resisted the power of white schooling and claimed new skills to
protect and redefine tribal and Indian identities. In "White Man's
Club," schools for Native children are examined within the broad
framework of race relations in the United States for the first
time. Jacqueline Fear-Segal analyzes multiple schools and their
differing agendas and engages with the conflicting white discourses
of race that underlay their pedagogies. She argues that federal
schools established to Americanize Native children did not achieve
their purpose; instead they progressively racialized American
Indians. 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 educational venture from the
start. Asking the reader to consider the legacy of
nineteenth-century acculturation policies, "White Man's Club"
incorporates the life stories and voices of Native students and
traces the schools' powerful impact into the twenty-first century.
Fear-Segal draws upon a rich array of source material. Traditional
archival research is interwoven with analysis of maps, drawings,
photographs, the built environment, and supplemented by oral and
family histories. Creative use of new theoretical and interpretive
perspectives brings fresh insights to the subject matter.
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