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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Potomac Books, Inc.,
[2006]
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Edición: | First Edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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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.