Drawing the global colour line : white men's countries and the international challenge of racial equality

Lake, Marilyn. (Author). Reynolds, Henry, 1938- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780521707527 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780521881180 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0521881188 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0521707528 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
x, 371 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1. Modern mobilities -- 1. The coming man: Chinese migration to the goldfields -- Part 2. Discursive frameworks -- 2. The American Commonwealth and the ?negro problem? -- 3. ?The day will come?: Charles Pearson?s disturbing prophecy -- 4. Theodore Roosevelt?s re-assertion of racial vigour -- 5. Imperial brotherhood or white? Gandhi in South Africa -- Part 3. Transnational solidarities -- 6. White Australia points the way -- 7. Defending the Pacific Slope -- 8. White ties across the ocean: the Pacific tour of the US fleet -- 9. The Union of South Africa: white men reconcile -- Part 4. Challenge and consolidation -- 10. International conferences: cosmopolitan amity or racial enmity? -- 11. Japanese alienation and imperial ambition -- 12. Racial equality? The Paris Peace Conference, 1919 -- 13. Immigration restriction in the 1920s: ?segregation on a large scale? -- Part 5. Towards universal human rights -- 14. Individual rights without distinction.