| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation. By Jacqueline Fear-Segal. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxvi, 395 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-2024-9.)

With the publication of Jacqueline Fear-Segal's White Man's Club, the historiography of Indian residential schooling has reached a new level of sophistication. This is not a history of the school system but a deeply analytic treatment of the discourse of race and the "asymmetries of power" reflected in the schools, which together produced "what it meant to be Indian in the United States" (p. xvii). Education was, as Fear-Segal contends, "integral not only to a story of land theft, ethnocide, and cultural erasure but also to a pattern of progressive racialization" (p. xiv). That pattern, the movement from the optimistic universalism of cultural evolution to "scientific" racism, is traced through the familiar characters of the schools' story: Gen. Samuel C. Armstrong, the Riggs family, and, of course, Capt. Richard Henry Pratt of Fort Marion, Florida, and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

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