"Blacks in all Quarters of the Globe": Anti-Imperialism, Insurgent Cosmopolitanism, and International Labor in Pauline Hopkins's Literary Journalism

“‘Blacks in all Quarters of the Globe’: Anti-Imperialism, Insurgent Cosmopolitanism, and International Labor in Pauline Hopkins’s Literary Journalism” traces the genealogy of black radicalism to Hopkins’s early twentieth century writings in the Colored American Magazine. Not only do these fiction and nonfiction works address race relations in the United States, they also engage international politics by imagining a collective anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist project that connects African Americans to Haitians, Native Americans, and Filipinos. Until Booker T. Washington removed her from her editorial post in the magazine in 1904, Hopkins’s insurgent prose challenged U.S. foreign and domestic policies regarding race and economic exploitation. In historical sketches about Toussaint L’Ouverture or famous women such as Harriet Tubman as well as in Winona, an historical novel that features John Brown as a major character, Hopkins presages a proletarian revolution that will bring about her economic and political version of divine justice.