Bad Medicine

Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American Indians

Sarah A. Whitt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2804-8 (ISBN)

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In Bad Medicine, Sarah A. Whitt exposes how Native American boarding schools and other settler institutions like asylums, factories, and hospitals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worked together as a part of an interconnected system of settler domination. In so doing, Whitt centers the experiences of Indigenous youth and adults alike at the Carlisle Indian School, Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, Ford Motor Company Factory, House of the Good Shepherd, and other Progressive Era facilities. She demonstrates that in the administration of these institutions, which involved moving Indigenous people from one location to another, everyday white Americans became deputized as agents of the settler order. Bringing together Native American history, settler colonial studies, and the history of medicine, Whitt breaks new ground by showing how the confinement of Indigenous people across interlocking institutional sites helped concretize networks of white racial power-a regime that Native nations and communities continue to negotiate and actively resist today.

Sarah A. Whitt is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Bad Medicine 1
1. “An Ordinary Case of Discipline”: Surveillance and Punishment at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879–1918 27
2. “Hoe Handle Medicine”: Medicinal Labor at the Ford Motor Company and Lancaster General Hospital 70
3. Sisters Magdalene: Entwined Histories of “Reform” at Good Shepherd Homes 109
4. “Care and Maintenance”: Settler Ableism and Land Dispossession at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, 1902–1934 139
Epilogue: Indigenous Futurities and the Afterlives of Institutionalization 184
Appendix 199
Notes 207
Bibliography 245
Index 263

Erscheinungsdatum	07.02.2025
Zusatzinfo	27 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-2804-1 / 1478028041
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2804-8 / 9781478028048
Zustand	Neuware