Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923
The famed industrial school and how white reformers and student experiences facilitated racism in American society
Cloth – $54
978-0-252-02106-0
Publication Date
Cloth: 01/01/1995
About the Book
Founded near Jamestown, Virginia, in 1868, Hampton Institute educated almost 1400 members of sixty-five Indian tribes. Donal F. Lindsey examines the complex and changing interactions among Indigenous people, Blacks, and whites at the nation’s premier industrial school for racial minorities. He traces the rise and decline of the Indian program in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries while analyzing its impact in the U.S. campaign for Indian education. Lindsey also examines how the two marginalized races at Hampton viewed each other and white society. Though integration prevailed in much of student life, it resulted in an even greater accommodation to a racist society. The weaknesses and strengths attributed to one race were used with “tender violence” to remake the other, in a program in which the powerful and the powerless remained so without regard to segregation or integration.About the Author
Donal F. Lindsey is a member of the History Department at the State University of New York-College at OswegoReviews
"For students of race and culture, this book contains vital information and analysis on the origins of a multicultural society. Lindsey shows the complicated way that one Black institution, while still under white control, devised to manage the education and socialization of African and Native American students, not for their needs but in the interests of the broader Anglo-American society."--American Historical ReviewRelated Titles
