Drawing the Global Colour Line White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality

Name: Drawing the Global Colour Line White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality
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ISBN: 9780521707527

ISBN-10: 0521707528

ISBN-13: 9780521707527

Edition: 2008

Authors: Marilyn Lake, Henry Reynolds

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In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was sweeping the world. Whereas most historians have confined their studies of race-relations to a national framework, this book offers a pioneering study of the transnational circulation of people and ideas, racial knowledge and technologies that under-pinned the construction of self-styled white men's countries from South Africa, to North America and Australasia. Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds show how in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century these countries worked in solidarity to…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 382
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Modern mobilities



The coming man: Chinese migration to the goldfields



Discursive frameworks



The American Commonwealth and the 'negro problem'



'The day will come': Charles Pearson's disturbing prophecy



Theodore Roosevelt's re-assertion of racial vigour



Imperial brotherhood or white? Gandhi in South Africa



Transnational solidarities



White Australia points the way



Defending the Pacific Slope



White ties across the ocean: the Pacific tour of the US fleet



The Union of South Africa: white men reconcile



Challenge and consolidation



International conferences: cosmopolitan amity or racial enmity?



Japanese alienation and imperial ambition



Racial equality? The Paris Peace Conference, 1919



Immigration restriction in the 1920s: 'segregation on a large scale'



Towards universal human rights



Individual rights without distinction


Index