Race, nation, & empire in American history / edited by James T. Campbell, Matthew Pratt Guterl, & Robert G. Lee.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Campbell, James T.
• Guterl, Matthew Pratt, 1970-
• Lee, Robert G., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Globalization--Political aspects.
• Nationalism.
• History.
• Racism.
• Imperialism.
• Territorial expansion.
• International relations.
• United States--Foreign relations--Congresses.
• United States--Territorial expansion--Congresses.
• Imperialism--History--Congresses.
• Racism--United States--History--Congresses.
• Nationalism--United States--History--Congresses.
• Globalization--Political aspects--United States--Congresses.
• United States--Race relations--Congresses.
• United States.
• Race relations.

Genre:

• Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 383 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Race, nation, and empire in American history

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007]

Summary:

• While public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and imperial greatness were a cornerstone of the new country when it was founded. In fact, notions of empire have long framed debates over western expansion, Indian removal, African slavery, Asian immigration, and global economic dominance, and they persist today despite the proliferation of anti-imperialist rhetoric.
• In fifteen essays, distinguished historians examine the central role of empire in American race relations, nationalism, and foreign policy from the founding of the United States to the twenty-first century. Full of transnational connections and cross-pollinations, of people appearing in unexpected places, the essays are also stories of people being put, quite literally, in their place by the bitter struggles over the boundaries of race and nation. Collectively, these essays demonstrate that the seemingly contradictory processes of boundary crossing and boundary making are and always have been intertwined.

Contents:

• Part I Who's who: American Encounters with Race
• The Racial Vernacular: Contesting the Black/White Binary in Nineteenth-Century Rhode Island / Joanne Pope Melish 17
• What Is Race?: Franz Boas Reconsidered / Vernon J. Williams Jr. 40
• An End to the Family Romance: Nella Larsen, Black Transnationalism, and American Racial Ideology / George Hutchinson 55
• Part II Ironies of Empire
• White Is the Color of Empire: The Annexation of Hawaii in 1898 / Eric Love 75
• Annexing the Other: The World's Peoples as Auxiliary Consumers and Imported Workers, 1876-1917 / Matthew Frye Jacobson 103
• The Americanization of South Africa / James T. Campbell 130
• Part III Engendering Race, Nation, and Empire
• Women's Rights, Race, and Imperialism in U.S. History, 1870-1920 / Louise M. Newman 157
• Cain contra Abel: Courtship, Masculinities, and Citizenship in Southern California Farming Communities, 1942-1964 / Matt Garcia 180
• Private Suffering and Public Strife: Delia Alvarez's War with the Nixon Administration's Pow Publicity Campaign, 1968-1973 / Natasha Zaretsky 201
• Part IV Crossings
• Desengano: A Confederate Exile in Cuba / Matthew Pratt Guterl 231
• Pauli Murray in Ghana: The Congo Crisis and an African American Woman's Dilemma / Kevin K. Gaines 250
• Nina Simone's Border Crossings: Black Cultural Nationalism and Gender on a Global Stage / Ruth Feldstein 277
• Part V End Times
• Redefining Americanness by Reformulating Hinduism: Indian Americans Challenge American Academia / Prema Kurien 307
• Brown Is the New Yellow: The Yellow Peril in an Age of Terror / Robert G. Lee 335
• Rethinking the "Clash of Civilizations": American Evangelicals, the Bush Administration, and the Winding Road to the Iraq War / Melani McAlister 352.

Notes:

• "The genesis of this book traces to a conference, "Race, Globalization, and the New Ethnic Studies," held at Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in 2003"--Acknowledgments.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780807831274
• 0807831271
• 9780807858288
• 0807858285

OCLC:

122525965