Romances of the White Man's Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936 by Jeremy Wells

Romances of the White Man's Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936

Jeremy Wells

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Take up the white man's burden So wrote the English writer Rudyard Kipling in 1899, in a poem aimed at Americans at a time when colonial ambitions were particularly high. The poem proved especially popular among white southern men, who saw in its...

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