Drawing the global colour line : white men's countries and the international challenge of racial equality / Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lake, Marilyn, author.

Reynolds, Henry, 1938- author.

Series:

Critical perspectives on empire.

Critical perspectives on empire

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations--History.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 371 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 studies 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 exclude those they defined as not-white, actions that provoked a long international struggle for racial equality. Their findings make clear the centrality of struggles around mobility and sovereignty to modern formulations of both race and human rights.

Contents:

The coming man : Chinese migration to the goldfields

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

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

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'

Individual rights without distinction.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

1-107-18483-5

1-281-24369-8

9786611243692

0-511-80536-5

0-511-37827-0

0-511-37738-X

0-511-37644-8

0-511-37492-5

0-511-37914-5

OCLC:

437197123