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- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume IV
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume IV
- Part I Ordering a World of States
- Part II Challenging a World of States
- 10 US Foreign Policy and the End of Development
- 11 Oil and American Insecurity
- 12 US Mass Culture and Consumption in a Global Context
- 13 Imperial Visions of the World
- 14 Human Rights
- 15 Compassion and Humanitarianism in International Relations
- 16 Third World Internationalism and the Global Color Line
- 17 The Queering of US Geopolitics
- 18 Migration, War, and the Transformation of the US Population
- 19 Christian and Muslim Transnational Networks
- 20 Native Americans, Indigeneity, and US Foreign Policy
- 21 Environment, Climate, and Global Disorder
- 22 Détente and the Reconfiguration of Superpower Relations
- Part III New World Disorder?
- Index
16 - Third World Internationalism and the Global Color Line
from Part II - Challenging a World of States
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2021
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume IV
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume IV
- Part I Ordering a World of States
- Part II Challenging a World of States
- 10 US Foreign Policy and the End of Development
- 11 Oil and American Insecurity
- 12 US Mass Culture and Consumption in a Global Context
- 13 Imperial Visions of the World
- 14 Human Rights
- 15 Compassion and Humanitarianism in International Relations
- 16 Third World Internationalism and the Global Color Line
- 17 The Queering of US Geopolitics
- 18 Migration, War, and the Transformation of the US Population
- 19 Christian and Muslim Transnational Networks
- 20 Native Americans, Indigeneity, and US Foreign Policy
- 21 Environment, Climate, and Global Disorder
- 22 Détente and the Reconfiguration of Superpower Relations
- Part III New World Disorder?
- Index
Summary
At the turn of the twentieth century, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois prophesied in “The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind” (1897), as well as in “Address to the Nations of the World” (1900), and, most notably, in The Souls of Black Folk (1903) that the color line – the relation of the “darker to the lighter races of men” – was the defining problem of the era. The onset of World War I gave these insights credence: the imperialist rivalry for the booty on offer from Africa not least drove the conflict, he argued in “The African Roots of War,” as Berlin sought its place in the sun and aimed to displace London in particular.
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