- Title
- Domesticating colonizers: domesticity, Indigenous domestic labor, and the modern Settler Colonial Nation
- Creator
- Haskins, Victoria
- Relation
- American Historical Review Vol. 124, Issue 4, p. 1290-1301
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz647
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- The placement of Indigenous girls and young women in white homes to work as servants was a key strategy of official policy and practice in both the United States and Australia. Between the 1880s and the Second World War, under the outing programs in the U.S. and various apprenticeship and indenturing schemes in Australia, the state regulated and constructed relations between Indigenous and white women in the home. Such state intervention not only helped to define domesticity in a modern world, but was integral to the formation of the modern settler colonial nation in its claims to civilizing authority in the United States and Australia. In the context of settler colonialism, domesticity was not hegemonic in this period, but rather was precarious and uncertain. By prescribing and demanding from employers demonstrations of domesticity, the state was engaged in perfecting white women as well as Indigenous women, the latter as the colonized, to be domesticated, and the former as the colonizer, to domesticate.
- Subject
- Indigenous women; Native American; Aboriginal Australian; domestic service; outing; apprenticeship; settler colonialism; colonization
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1407270
- Identifier
- uon:35712
- Identifier
- ISSN:0002-8762
- Rights
- This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in American Historical Review following peer review. The version of record Haskins, Victoria. "Domesticating colonizers: domesticity, Indigenous domestic labor, and the modern Settler Colonial Nation”. Published in American Historical Review Vol. 124, Issue 4, p. 1290-1301 (2019), is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz647.
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
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