In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American Indians in the United States and Aboriginal people in Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilation. White Mother to a Dark Race examines the key roles white women played in these removal policies.
Margaret D. Jacobs is a¿professor of history and the director of the Women¿s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Nebraska¿Lincoln. She is the author of Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879¿1934 (Nebraska 1999).
