Research Catalog

Title

The art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School / Hayes Peter Mauro.

Author

Mauro, Hayes Peter, 1970-

Publication

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

178 p., [65] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Established by an act of Congress in 1879, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in central Pennsylvania was conceived as a paramilitary residential boarding school that would solve the then-pressing "Indian Question" by forcibly assimilating and Americanizing Native American youth. A major part of this process was the "before and after" portrait, which displayed the individual in his or her allegedly degenerate state before Americanization, and then again following its conclusion. In this historical study, Mauro analyzes the visual imagery produced at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as a specific instance of the aesthetics of Americanization at work. His work combines a consideration of cultural contexts and themes specific to the United States of the time and critical theory to flesh out innovative historical readings of the photographic materials.

Subject

• United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) > History
• Indians of North America > Education > History. > Pennsylvania > Carlisle
• Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation > History. > Pennsylvania > Carlisle
• Indians of North America > Pennsylvania > Carlisle > Ethnic identity > History
• Indians of North America > Pennsylvania > Carlisle > History > Pictorial works
• Americanization > History
• Art > Political aspects > History. > Pennsylvania > Carlisle
• Photography > Political aspects > History. > Pennsylvania > Carlisle
• Propaganda > Pennsylvania > Carlisle > History
• Racism in education > Pennsylvania > Carlisle > History

Genre/Form

• Illustrated works
• History
• Pictorial works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The "savage" and antebellum science -- Producing the Indian : indexing and pathologizing the Native American -- Producing Americans : photography and indoctrination at Carlisle -- Photography and indoctrination II : the before-and-after portrait -- Publicizing the "civilized" savage.

ISBN

• 9780826349200 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 082634920X (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010043207

OCLC

• 670211576
• SCSB-12527450

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library