Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940

Gregory D. Smithers is an associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of several books, including The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity, and is the coeditor of Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas (Nebraska, 2014).

“A shining example of how to do comparative and transnational history.”-American Historical Review“[Gregory D. Smithers] combines a very ambitious synthesis of existing scholarship with original research into primary sources. This book could have a profound impact upon scholarly thinking in relevant fields.”-Ann McGrath, author of Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia“A keen critique of the impossible logic of racism in two major settler societies anxious to strengthen their sense of nationhood. . . . Readers will be fully convinced of the key importance of whiteness in both these societies, and of the science that bolstered it.”-Philippa Levine, author of The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note about Terminology Introduction Part I 1. On the Importance of Good Breeding 2. Debating Race and the Meaning of Whiteness 3. Eliminating the "Dubious Hyphen between Savagery and Civilization" 4. Racial Discourse in the United States and Australia Part II 5. Missionaries, Settlers, Cherokees, and African Americans, 1780s-1850s 6. Missionaries, Settlers, and Australian Aborigines, 1780s-1850s 7. The Evolution of an American Race, 1860s-1890s 8. The Evolution of White Australia, 1860-1890 Part III 9. The "Science" of Human Breeding 10. "Breeding out the Colour" Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index