History, Department of
Date of this Version
2016
Citation
The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2016, pp. 347-349
Abstract
The story of indigenous child removal is a devastating one. The well-known Indian boarding schools of the late nineteenth century United States separated children from their families, communities, language, and culture and thus served as a radical assimilation project. Less familiar may be the ongoing removal of native children from their families deep into the twentieth century. In this fascinating book, Jacobs shows how post–World War II policy changes that scaled back governments’ existing obligations to indigenous peoples coincided with “purportedly color-blind liberalism” in the United States, Canada, and Australia to make indigenous placement in nonindigenous homes seem not only a practical but a humane way to promote the welfare of indigenous children (259). ... Scholars from a variety of fields will welcome this work.
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Published by Johns Hopkins University Press; used by permission.