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.
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.
Joel Pfister is Professor of American Studies and English at Wesleyan University. He is a coeditor of Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America and the author of Staging Depth: Eugene O’Neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse and The Production of Personal Life: Class, Gender, and the Psychological in Hawthorne’s Fiction.
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List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Lessons Indians Can Teach American Studies about the Role of Individuality 1 PART ONE > Categorizing and Institutionalizing Indians and Individuals 29 1 Carlisle as Individualizing Factory: Making Indians, Individuals, Workers 31 2 The School of Savagery: “Indian” Formations of Subjectivity and Carlisle 97 PART TWO Multicultural Modernity Incorporated 133 3 Modernist Multiculturalism: Lawrence, Luhan, and the White Therapeutic Indianizing of “Lost” White Individuality 135 4 Indians Inc.:Collier’s New Deal Diversity Management 185 Afterward: Diversity Incorporated and World Americanization 229 Appendix 1 Notes on Natives and Socialism 253 Appendix 2 A Proposal to Reopen Carlisle 257 Abbreviations in Notes 259 Notes 261 Index 321
List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Lessons Indians Can Teach American Studies about the Role of Individuality 1 PART ONE > Categorizing and Institutionalizing Indians and Individuals 29 1 Carlisle as Individualizing Factory: Making Indians, Individuals, Workers 31 2 The School of Savagery: “Indian” Formations of Subjectivity and Carlisle 97 PART TWO Multicultural Modernity Incorporated 133 3 Modernist Multiculturalism: Lawrence, Luhan, and the White Therapeutic Indianizing of “Lost” White Individuality 135 4 Indians Inc.:Collier’s New Deal Diversity Management 185 Afterward: Diversity Incorporated and World Americanization 229 Appendix 1 Notes on Natives and Socialism 253 Appendix 2 A Proposal to Reopen Carlisle 257 Abbreviations in Notes 259 Notes 261 Index 321
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