The German Turn

The German Turn is the history of Chile's settler ideological project of the 1880s exemplified in education. Romina A. Green Rioja examines the histories of education, settler colonialism and immigration, Native mission schools, and Mapuche studies at the state and local levels. Green Rioja finds that Chilean society and state policies demarcated the lines of ethnic, national, and racial preference and exclusion, offering inclusion for those of European ancestry and distance for those of Indigenous descent. She also considers global-transnational studies on immigration, settler colonialism, and education, showing that Chilean policies that appear insular actually align with global patterns and shared policy by other forming nations.

This work is a must-read for historians and Latin Americanists to understand Chile's modernization and its impacts on social structures.