Beschreibung:
Joel Pfister
Explores the drive of whites to "individualize" Indians -- showing them how they should pursue happiness, find the meaning of life and how they should labor.
List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xiIntroduction: Lessons Indians Can Teach American Studies about the Role of Individuality 1PART ONE>Categorizing and Institutionalizing Indians and Individuals 291 Carlisle as Individualizing Factory: Making Indians, Individuals, Workers 312 The School of Savagery: “Indian” Formations of Subjectivity and Carlisle 97PART TWOMulticultural Modernity Incorporated 1333 Modernist Multiculturalism: Lawrence, Luhan, and the White Therapeutic Indianizing of “Lost” White Individuality 1354 Indians Inc.:Collier’s New Deal Diversity Management 185Afterward: Diversity Incorporated and World Americanization 229Appendix 1 Notes on Natives and Socialism 253Appendix 2 A Proposal to Reopen Carlisle 257Abbreviations in Notes 259Notes 261Index 321