About Caitlin Keliiaa:
\n"I am a feminist historian versan t in the fields of Native American Studies\, Labor Studies\, Gender Studie s\, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. I am an Associate Professor of H istory at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. My research explores the intersections of race\, gender\, and labor and their historical conseq uences. Broadly\, I research 20th-century Native experiences in the West. My scholarship excavates histories of &ldquo\;outing&rdquo\; programs\, In dian labor exploitation\, dispossession and surveillance of Native bodies. ​My last name is pronounced 'keh-LEE-EE-ah-ah.' Hear it here."
\nAbout Refusing Settler Domesticity : \;
\n"In Northern California&rsquo\;s San Francisco Bay Ar ea\, behind the faç\;ade of luxurious homes\, lie traces of a once t hriving project of government assimilation. From 1918 to roughly 1942\, th e Bay Area Outing Program coercively recruited thousands of Native women f rom U.S. Indian boarding schools to work as live-in housemaids in homes ac ross the region.
\nMy book\, \;Refusing Settler Domesticity Nati ve Women's Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program\, unpacks t his far-reaching system that created an exploitative labor market. I ask&n bsp\;the overarching question: Within the confines of domestic labor\, how did Native women comply with\, resist\, and negotiate their circumstances ?
\nTheoretically\, I situate the program within California&rsquo\;s long history of colonial Indian labor exploitation and I center Native wo men&rsquo\;s resistance. \;In this way\, I enrich this labor history w ith voices and perspectives that challenge the notion of Native women as p assive subjects. Methodologically\, I use qualitative data analysis softwa re to examine more than 4\,000 outing-related documents. \;At the hear t of this study are Native women&rsquo\;s voices uncovered from the archiv e.
\nAs an interdisciplinary historian\, I employ a range of methods . I draw insight from the fields of history\, ethnic studies\, feminist st udies\, education\, and settler colonial theory."
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