Education and the Racial Dynamics of Settler Colonialism in Early America

Georgia and South Carolina, ca. 1700-ca. 1820
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-43716-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 237 mm x 158 mm, Gewicht: 530 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in American History

This is the first historical monograph to demonstrate settler colonialism’s significance for Early America. Based on a nuanced reading of the archive and using a comparative approach, the book treats settler colonialism as a process rather than a coherent ideology. Spady shows that learning was a central site of colonial struggle in the South, in which Native Americans, Africans, and European settlers acquired and exploited each other’s knowledge and practices. Learned skills, attitudes, and ideas shaped the economy and culture of the region and produced challenges to colonial authority. Factions of enslaved people and of Native American communities devised new survival and resistance strategies. Their successful learning challenged settler projects and desires, and white settlers gradually responded. Three developments arose as a pattern of racialization: settlers tried to prohibit literacy for the enslaved, remove indigenous communities, and initiate some of North America's earliest schools for poorer whites. Fully instituted by the end of the 1820s, settler colonization’s racialization of learning in the South endured beyond the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spady, James O’Neil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: "Like the Spider from the Rose" Part I: Colonization and Learning to Circa 1770 1. An Overview of the Formation of a Colonial Society 2. Learning as a Practice of Power by the Colonized 3. Emulation and Whiteness Part II: Colonization and Learning After Circa 1770 4. An Overview of a Republican Settler Colonial Society 5. Toward New Echota, Toward First African 6. The Race of Learning. Coda: Settler Colonial Modernity and Dangerous Learners

Über Autor(innen)

James O’Neil Spady is an associate professor of American History at Soka University of America.