Missionary magazines systematically socialized white children into racial uplift work.

Evidence

As northern Baptist women established children’s groups, they once again found the missionary magazine to be their most effective medium—in this case linking children of different races and cultures in common cause and instilling in them an appreciation and zeal for organized work. Children of all ages were brought systematically into the larger program of women’s missions … The didactic use of short stories allowed missionary women to preach to young and old alike about the virtue of sacrificial giving. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 552

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Migrant children changed white youth culture, inverting the assimilation narrative — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2986; Missionary conversion was a racial-regulatory technology cultivating obedient subjectivity; Children’s mission magazines socialized white youth toward black education as charity — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 552

Broader Connections

• Missionary conversion was a racial-regulatory technology cultivating obedient subjectivity #expands (0.75)
• Migrant children changed white youth culture, inverting the assimilation narrative #qualifies (0.70) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2986