Drawing the global colour line white men's countries and the international challenge of racial equality

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 fram...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lake, Marilyn (-)
Otros Autores: Reynolds, Henry, 1938-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2008.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Critical perspectives on empire.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38392732*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.