how settler colonialism and transpacific exchange shaped American reform
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lake, Marilyn
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2019 - B
- Thesaurus
- kolonialisme, etniciteit, witte vrouwen, inheemse volkeren, arbeid, vakbonden, vrouwenkiesrecht, Australië, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- White settlers in the United States, who saw themselves as pioneers, were inspired by the state experiments of Australia and New Zealand that helped shape their commitment to an active state, women’s and workers’ rights. Both settler societies defined themselves as New World, against Old World feudal and aristocratic societies and Indigenous peoples deemed backward and primitive. In conversations, conferences and collaboration, transpacific networks were animated by a sense of racial kinship and investment in social justice. While “Asiatics” and “Blacks” would be excluded, Indians and Aborigines would be assimilated or absorbed. The political mobilizations of Indigenous progressives?in the Society of American Indians and the Australian Aborigines’ Progressive Association?testified to the power of Progressive thought but also to its repressive underpinnings.