"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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