Indian Slavery, Labor, Evangelization, and Captivity in the Americas: An Annotated Bibliography.

1999

Not Race, but Grace: Presbyterian Missionaries and American Indians, 1837-1893

1980

Race, writes George W. Stocking, Jr., was "a characteristically nineteenthcentury phenomenon." Historians of articulate racial thought in America generally believe that the optimism of the eighteenth century gave way in the nineteenth to pessimism in matters of race. Growing numbers of scientists, and perhaps nonscientists too, came to believe that certain races were innately inferior, retarded by inherited qualities that were unchangeable or changeable only over long periods of time, and that cultural manifestations were the product primarily of biological endowment. By late in the century, according to Stocking, "race and culture were linked in a single evolutionary hierarchy extending fr…

Joel Pfister. <italic>Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern.</italic> (New Americanists.) Durham, N.C.: Duke U…

2005

Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940

2000

The Tutor'd Mind: Indian Missionary-Writers in Antebellum America.

1998

With Good Intentions: Quaker Work among the Pawnees, Otos, and Omahas in the 1870s

1983

Rosalyn R. LaPier and David R. M. Beck's <i>City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934</i>

2015

Rifles, Blankets, and Beads: Identity, History, and the Northern Athapaskan Potlatch . William E. Simeone

1996

Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923.

1995

Representations of American Indians and the Irish in educational reports, 1850s–1920s

2002

Modern colonialism, writes Gyan Prakash, ‘instituted enduring hierarchies of subjects and knowledges — the colonizer and the colonized, the Occidental and the Oriental, the civilized and the primitive, the scientific and the superstitious, the developed and the underdeveloped’. Such dichotomies ‘reduced complex differences and interactions to the binary (self/other) logic of colonial power’, and colonial rulers ‘constituted the “native” as their inverse image’. Such perceptions of difference as ‘other’ expressed what ‘civilized’ Westerners believed themselves not to be — but also what they feared they might become, should they lose rational self-control. The ‘other’, writes Eva Kornfelt, ‘t…

John Demos. The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic.

2015

Promises of the Past: A History of Indian Education in the United States.

1994