Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887-1937

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Notes Abbreviations arhi Annual Report of Hampton Institute abmp Australian Board of Missions Papers bpa Board for the Protection of Aborigines (Victorian) cpp Commonwealth Parliamentary Papers csr Carlisle Indian Industrial School Student Records egec Elaine Goodale Eastman Collection hua Hampton University Archives irap Indian Rights Association Papers jlcnsw Journal of the Legislative Council of New South Wales naac National Archives of Australia, Canberra naav National Archives of Australia, Victoria nswpp New South Wales Parliamentary Papers pcm The Papers of Carlos Montezuma, M.D., ed. Larner prov Public Record Office of Victoria qjsai Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians qpp Queensland Parliamentary Papers qvp Queensland Votes and Proceedings rhpp Richard Henry Pratt Papers sair Society of American Indians Records, Albany vpp Victorian Parliamentary Papers vprs Victorian Public Record Office wapd Western Australian Parliamentary Debates Introduction 1. Mumford, Interzones, xi. 2. Ideas about race have changed since the marriages described in this book took place. Race is no longer seen as a biological truism but as a set of social constructs grounded in time and place. These shifts have complicated the language used to talk about the phenomenon of interracial marriage. The word race has been in English usage since the sixteenth century, and although its meaning has continued to fluctuate, it has generally referred to groups of people who were believed to differ culturally, physically, and even intellectually. This idea is behind the cruel and unequal treatment that some groups of people have ...