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Book Review
| White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation. Indigenous Education Series. By Jacqueline Fear-Segal. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxiii + 395 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, CAN $68.75, £31.00.)
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Think there is little more to say about the American Indian boarding school experience? Think again. Fear-Segal imaginatively examines the ominous racialization of American Indians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a focus on the covertly racial agenda of boarding school policy. Utilizing and expanding on the work of earlier scholars (and drawing on her own background as to how boarding schools become "normalizing" institutions), White Man's Club's sophisticated but readable style will engross any reader. |
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