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McDade, Jeffrey R.

Jeffrey R. McDade received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Kansas State University and is currently serving as Associate Professor of Sociology at Graceland University in Iowa. He has published previously research on American Indian boarding schools in Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change and in Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology.

Birth of the American Indian Manual Labor Boarding School: Social Control Through Culture Destruction, 1820-1850
2009 0-7734-4845-4
This book argues that the roots of the manual labor boarding school for American Indian youth and the explanation for its development and spread are to be found in the ideology that gave also birth to the penitentiary.