Identifies common themes in the writings of African-, Asian-, and Native-American authors who exploited anxiety about race and national identity
Identifies common themes in the writings of African-, Asian-, and Native-American authors who exploited anxiety about race and national identity
Acknowledgments Introduction: Writing Race on the World's Stage Part I: Reading Kipling in America 1 The Burden of Whiteness 2 The White Man's Burden or the Leopard's Spots? Dixon's Political ConundrumPart II: The Black Cosmopolite 3 The Plain Citizen of Black Orientalism: Frank R. Steward's Filipino American War Fiction 4 Pauline Hopkins's "International Policy": Cosmopolitan Perspective at the Colored American MagazinePart III: Pacific Expansion and Transnational Fictions of Race 5 How the Irish Became Japanese: Winnifred Eaton's Transnational Racial Reconstructions 6 American Indians, Asiatics, and Anglo-Saxons: Ranald MacDonald's Japan Story of Adventure Conclusion Notes Index About the Author
Gretchen Murphy is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas-Austin. She is the author of Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire.
"This impressive book, which is based on extensive archival research, shows how the transformation of racial categories at the turn of the century was a multidirectional process that often generated new meanings. Murphy reveals how multiple imperial histories shaped changing ideas about race and how readers and writers who engaged the trope of the white man's burden exposed contradictory ideas about whiteness as a domestic and transnational racial construct. Shadowing the White Man's Burden is part of an exciting new body of work on race in transnational contexts. It is one of the best accounts we have of the significance of literature in transformations of and contests over race in this period." Shelley Streeby, author of American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture
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