| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 147 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Issues in the history of American foreign relations |
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Issues in the history of American foreign relations.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-139) and index. |
| Contents |
White -- Brown -- Yellow -- Black -- Appendix of documents: 1. Benjamin Franklin, "observations concerning the increase of mankind," 1751 -- 2. Thomas Jefferson reflects on the issues of African Americans and slavery, 1785 -- 3. Josiah C. Nott speaks on the natural history of mankind, 1850 -- 4. President Andrew Jackson calls for the removal of Native Americans westward, 1830 -- 5. Sam Houston rallies his fellow Texans, 1836 -- 6. John Fiske on the evolution of races, 1873 -- 7. Reverend Josiah strong prophesizes on God, the Anglo-Saxon, and the world, 1891 -- 8. Senator Albert J. Beveridge defends America's actions in the Philippines, January 9, 1900 -- 9. Anti-Chinese sentiment in California, 1878 -- 10. Lothrop Stoddard warns of the rising yellow tide, 1922 -- Time instructs its readers on how to tell a "Jap" from a "friend," 1941 -- 12. Charles Lindbergh witnesses the war in the Pacific, 1944 -- 13. "Constructive engagement" with white regimes in Southern Africa, 1969 -- 14. U.S. GI testifies about atrocities and "gooks," 1971 -- 15. Martin Luther King Jr. condemns the Vietnam War, 1967. |
| Summary |
"At first glance, it may be difficult to accept that race and racism play a major role, whether conscious or subconscious, in policy-making. But leaders are products of their upbringing and era, and even some of America's best-educated presidents and secretaries of state have been slave owners, segregationists, or bigots. Some belong to America's distant past, but it was not so long ago that the civil fights movement began to correct America's troubled race relations." "While race has rarely served as the primary motivating factor in America's foreign policies, Michael Krenn shows that it has functioned as both a powerful justification for U.S. actions abroad and a significant influence on their shape, direction, and intensity Portraying nonwhite races as inferior allowed U.S. policymakers to rationalize territorial expansion at the expense of Native Americans and Mexico, to demonize the enemy in wars fought against Filipino insurgents and Japanese soldiers, and to justify intervention in developing nations. Racism made America's leaders soft on European colonialism, and racial segregation laws in the United States were an obstacle to winning hearts and minds in the developing world during the Cold War. Race plays a more subtle role in U.S. foreign relations today, but speeches about turning the war on terrorism into a "crusade," the abuse of detainees in military prisons, and apathy toward genocide in Darfur can be explained, in part, by prejudice." "The Color of Empire challenges readers to recognize that American perceptions and prejudices about race have influenced the conduct of U.S. foreign relations from the colonial era to the present. This concise survey is an excellent introduction to the topic for both students and general readers."--Jacket. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte (umfassend)
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| Subject |
Rassenbeziehung.
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Außenpolitik.
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Aussenpolitik.
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Rassenbeziehung.
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United States -- Foreign relations.
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United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy.
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United States.
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United States.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Krenn, Michael L., 1957- Color of empire. 1st ed. Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2006 (OCoLC)607848240 |
| ISBN |
1574888021 (alkaline paper) |
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9781574888027 (alkaline paper) |
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157488803X (paperback alkaline paper) |
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9781574888034 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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