Shadowing the White Man’s Burden: U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line

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269 Adams, Herbert Baxter, 241n9 Africa, images in Hopkins’s fiction of, 121–46, 251n2, 251n4 African Americans: black cosmopolitan image of, 78–85; black “Orientalism” and, 89–90, 244n4; deracialized fiction by, 98–105; divided loyalties suspected among, 104–5, 249n41; Dixon’s view of, 60–76; FilipinoAmerican war fiction by, 87–120; military service of, 2, 7–8, 19–20, 51–57, 78, 87, 90–97; patriotism of, 77–78; transnational affiliations of, 8–9; U. S. imperialism and role of, 48–52, 128–36, 223–27, 239n49 Africanist genre, Hopkins fiction as, 121–46 African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, 89–90 agency, imperialism and, 11 Aguinaldo, Emilio, 131 Alarcón, Norma, 120 Allen, Carol, 251n4 Americanist ideology: local color writing and, 96–97; in Steward’s fiction, 102–5 American Missionary, 62 American Negro Academy, 13 Anderson, Benedict, 220 Anderson, Stuart, 55–56 Anglo-Saxonism: black cosmopolitanism and, 84–85; Dye’s narrative of MacDonald and, 210–21; emergence and popularity of, 38–41; in Hopkins’s “Talma Gordon,” 111; Japanese racial identity and, 166–68, 171–73; MacDonald’s travels and role of, 190, 196–205, 210–21; race relations and, 32–38, 54–57; as transnational racial identity, 3–4; transnational racial identity and, 161; white man’s burden ideology and, 67–74; white supremacy and, 59, 64–67 “An Out of the Way ‘Outing’” (Custer), 205–10 anthropological research, racial categories and, 4 anti-imperialism: CAM articles on, 129–33; in Hopkins’s Of One Blood, 136–46, 254n39; in literature, 24–25; racial ideology and, 41–46, 110–13; white supremacy and, 59–60, 240n6 Anting Anting fetish, 101–2, 248n40 “Anting-Anting of Maga, The” (Meyers), 248n40 Anting-Anting Stories and Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos, 248n40 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 195–96 Apess, William, 263n20 Appiah, Anthony, 14–15 Arena, 52, 62–63 Asian Americans: fiction by, 151–57; immigration policies concerning, 152–57, 165–68, 178–86; transnational racial identity of, 161–86 Asian Exclusion Leagues, 178 Astor, John Jacob, 196–97 Astoria (Irving), 196–97 At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 (Lee), 152–53 Atchison Daily Globe, 32 Atherton, Gertrude, 112–13 Atlantic Monthly, 31 Baker, Houston, 83 Balibar, Etienne, 4 Barnston, George, Mrs., 201 Bartholomae, Donald, 195 Bederman, Gail, 37–38 Bering Strait theory, research concerning, 214–21 Index 270 Index Bhabha, Homi, 8, 84–85, 198 Bigelow, Poultney, 93 Black Americans and the White Man’s Burden (Gatewood), 52–53, 80 black cosmopolitanism: in Hopkins’s fiction, 122, 125–36, 142–46; literary construction of, 11, 19, 78–85, 243n11 Black Cosmopolitanism (Nwankwo), 79–80 Blackford, Charles Minor, 62–63 black intellectuals, cosmopolitanism and, 80–85, 243n6 “Black Man’s Burden, The” (Fortune), 239n49 black military service, U.S. race relations and, 7–8 black “Orientalism”: African-American fiction and, 89–90, 244n4; in Hopkins fiction, 121; local color genre and, 95–97; in Steward ’s writing, 91–97, 104–5, 114–17 Bloomfield, Maxwell, 65–66 Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 4 Boer War, African American response to, 80 Bonsal, Stephen, 104–5 Bookman’s, 58, 240n1 Boston Transcript, 132 Braithwaite, William Stanley, 252n11 Bramhall, John T., 1–2, 93 Bridgeman, Robert L., 244n6 “Britannicus” (pseud.). See McLeod, Malcolm British imperialism, MacDonald’s narrative and politics of, 191–205, 212–21 Brodhead, Richard, 248n39 Brown, Jennifer S. H., 204–5 Brown, Sterling, 249n44 Browne, Sheri Bartlett, 220 Browning, Robert, 31 “Brown Man’s Burden, The” (Labouchere), 234n6 Bunyan, John, 33 CAM. See Colored American Magazine Campbell, Nicholas H., 121–23, 125–28, 133–37, 141, 146, 252n9 Canadian in Japan, A (early title for MacDonald narrative), 191 Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR), 191–92 Canadian-U.S. relations, MacDonald’s experiences and role of, 190, 199–205 Carrington, C. E., 38, 233n1 Catholic Church in Philippines, in Steward’s “Starlik,” 107–8 Chamberlain, Joseph, 130 Chapman, John Jay, 39 “Chappy” (anonymous columnist), 29, 34 Charleston Love Story, A (Steward), 89–90 “Charles Winter Woods: From Bootblack to Professor” (Hopkins), 81–85 Chesnutt, Charles, 95, 101–5, 110, 244n6, 248n39 Chinese Boxer Rebellion, 164 Chinese Exclusion Act, 148, 152–53, 165 Chinese immigrants: Pacific expansion and transnational views of, 147–57, 255n5; U.S. racial attitudes towards, 49–50, 179–86 Chinook Indians, MacDonald’s discussion of, 197–205 Christianity, in Hopkins’s fiction, 124–25 Chung, Li G., 147–48, 151, 153, 155 citizenship: African-American framing of, 88–90; Chinese Americans’ struggle...