Race, Nation, and Empire in American History
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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. The essays trace the global expansion of American merchant capital, the rise of an evangelical Christian mission movement, the dispossession and historical erasure of indigenous peoples, the birth of new identities, and the continuous struggles over the place of darker-skinned peoples in a settler society that still fundamentally imagines itself as white. 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.Contributors:James T. Campbell, Brown UniversityRuth Feldstein, Rutgers University-NewarkKevin K. Gaines, University of MichiganMatt Garcia, Brown UniversityMatthew Pratt Guterl, Indiana UniversityGeorge Hutchinson, Indiana UniversityMatthew Frye Jacobson, Yale UniversityPrema Kurien, Syracuse UniversityRobert G. Lee, Brown UniversityEric Love, University of Colorado, BoulderMelani McAlister, George Washington UniversityJoanne Pope Melish, University of KentuckyLouise M. Newman, University of FloridaVernon J. Williams Jr., Indiana UniversityNatasha Zaretsky, Southern Illinois University CarbondaleWhile 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.The contributors are James T. Campbell, Ruth Feldstein, Kevin K. Gaines, Matt Garcia, Matthew Pratt Guterl, George Hutchinson, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Prema Kurien, Robert G. Lee, Eric Love, Melani McAlister, Joanne Pope Melish, Louise M. Newman, Vernon J. Williams Jr., and Natasha Zaretsky. The editors are James T. Campbell, Matthew Pratt Guterl, and Robert G. Lee.—>
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807872758 |
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| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Publication date: | 12/10/2017 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 392 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Matthew Pratt Guterl is director of the American studies program and associate professor of African American and African diaspora studies at Indiana University.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction James T. Campbell Matthew Pratt Guterl Robert G. Lee 1
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
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
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
Crossings
Desengano: A Confederate Exile inCuba 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
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
Contributors 375
Index 379
What People are Saying About This
Focusing on race and deploying a capacious notion of empire that ranges from formal empire to individual and collective transnational experiences, these quite imaginative and diverse essays open up many new and important avenues for understanding the workings of race, the meanings of American nationalism, and the dimensions of empire.—Thomas Bender, New York University
The contributors to this volume analyze the entanglements of race, nation, and empire through scrupulously close readings of texts and artifacts as well as through intensive historiographical analyses of cultural contexts. They convincingly demonstrate how economic, political, and military expansionism went hand in hand with the rise of the nation-state, making empire a constitutive feature of global modernity.—Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College, coeditor of Cultures of U.S. Imperialism