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The color of empire : race and American foreign relations /

"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 ow...

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Основен автор: Krenn, Michael L., 1957-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, ℗♭2006.
Издание: 1st ed.
Серия: Issues in the history of American foreign relations.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Color of empire.
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  • 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.