1st Edition
Education and the Racial Dynamics of Settler Colonialism in Early America Georgia and South Carolina, ca. 1700–ca. 1820
By James O’Neil Spady
Copyright 2020
272 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
James O’Neil Spady is an associate professor of American History at Soka University of America.
