Assimilationist removal policy aimed at biological and cultural elimination of Aboriginal identity

Evidence

The policy rationale was explicitly assimilationist. A. O. Neville — the Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia from 1915 to 1940, the most operationally consequential architect of the removal policy — articulated the logic in a 1937 address to the Aboriginal Affairs conference: the “half-caste problem” would be solved by removing mixed-race children from Aboriginal communities, raising them in white-run institutions, and absorbing them into the white population across three generations. The policy was, in the Bringing Them Home report’s assessment, a policy of biological and cultural elimination. — , The Rod and the Child, 5307

Categorization

• DEFINE: Spells out the explicit assimilationist logic driving the removals — the stated mechanism behind the practice.
• XREF: connects to: Roughly 100,000 Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families between 1910 and 1970 — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5301; Stolen Generations institutions routinely punished children for speaking Aboriginal languages — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5312; Australian Aboriginal Protection Acts legally authorized child removal without parental consent — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5306 (+7 more)

Related

• Roughly 100,000 Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families between 1910 and 1970 (similarity 0.81)
• Australian Aboriginal Protection Acts legally authorized child removal without parental consent (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Settler colonialism aims to terminate peoples’ existence, not individuals #corroborates (0.70) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 17
• Settlers often integrated with the native population instead of exterminating them #contradicts (0.65) — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 107
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry #expands (0.55)
• US Indian policy constitutes settler colonialism rather than mere discrimination #corroborates (0.50) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 4
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural traits for biological ones in racializing groups. #complicates (0.35)
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural difference for biological difference as a racial logic #complicates (0.35)