Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality (Critical Perspectives on Empire)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Marilyn Lake......Page 11
Henry Reynolds......Page 12
Introduction......Page 13
Part 1 Modern mobilities......Page 25
Lowe Kong Meng arrives in Melbourne to find prosperity and prejudice......Page 27
Victoria looks to California, but leads the way in immigration restriction......Page 29
Freedom of movement: international treaties and transnational solidarities......Page 35
Beef-eating men versus rice-eating men......Page 42
Racial exclusion and Chinese protest......Page 47
Race homogeneity as the basis of healthy national life......Page 53
A time may come......Page 55
Part 2 Discursive frameworks......Page 59
James Bryce publishes a work of biblical authority......Page 61
E. A. Freeman: university mentor and historian of race......Page 62
The cause of the North: looking to America......Page 65
‘I talked to everyone I could find’: Bryce researches the United States......Page 68
The world made small......Page 72
Two races so differently advanced......Page 74
United States and South Africa: white men must rule......Page 83
A crisis in the history of the world......Page 84
The white man ‘elbowed and hustled’ and ‘thrust aside’......Page 87
Pearson the liberal reformer......Page 94
‘Remarkable’, ‘novel’, ‘disturbing’: the impact of Pearson’s book......Page 99
Pearson’s challenge to Anglo-Saxon triumphalism......Page 101
Racial anxiety......Page 103
‘One of the most notable books of the end of the century’......Page 107
The new and newest worlds: ‘a heritage for the white people’......Page 112
‘We cannot sit huddled in our borders’......Page 116
Anglo-Saxonism resurgent......Page 118
Mr Gandhi arrives in Natal and becomes a ‘despised being’......Page 126
Amendment to the Franchise Act: ‘is this to be a white man’s country?’......Page 131
We must follow New South Wales......Page 137
Natal immigration restriction: ‘founded on the American Act’......Page 141
Part 3 Transnational solidarities......Page 147
Inauguration......Page 149
American history lessons......Page 150
Barring all persons belonging to any coloured race......Page 155
Outside the pale of civilised tongues......Page 159
Enshrining the status of white labour......Page 162
White citizen mothers......Page 169
Critics of White Australia......Page 171
The need for population......Page 175
‘A deep colour line of demarcation’......Page 176
A victory never anticipated......Page 178
Yet humiliated like dogs......Page 180
The Japanese danger......Page 182
The problem of the hour......Page 184
The Schools Crisis......Page 185
A national insult......Page 186
The diplomats’ compromise......Page 189
‘White Canada Forever’......Page 190
Transnational identities and interests......Page 196
Asia against the world......Page 200
8 White ties across the ocean: the Pacific tour of the US fleet......Page 202
Deakin issues an invitation......Page 206
‘those colonies are white man’s country’......Page 209
White man to white men......Page 212
‘Sacrifice the nigger’......Page 222
The young general......Page 225
Insulting Asiatics as Asiatics......Page 226
The birth of Satyagraha......Page 228
An Asiatic alliance?......Page 230
The mutual support of white men......Page 231
Creating a white man’s union......Page 234
Africans as true citizens of Empire......Page 236
London sanctions the Union......Page 238
Gandhi confronts Smuts......Page 240
The discrimination of colour and race......Page 241
The international race question......Page 244
Gandhi’s manifesto......Page 246
A complete separation of the blacks and the whites......Page 247
Part 4 Challenge and consolidation......Page 251
Race questions......Page 253
The Pan-African Congress and the problem of the colour line......Page 256
Whiteness is the ownership of the earth......Page 259
Imperialism the enemy......Page 261
To discuss relations between the East and West......Page 263
The White policy could lead to war......Page 265
A new cosmopolitanism or intellectual incoherence?......Page 270
Stirring up racial animosity......Page 273
Japanese settlers in California: ‘incapable of assimilation’......Page 275
Citizenship and land......Page 277
The horror of miscegenation......Page 279
Woodrow Wilson’s dilemma......Page 282
‘We coloured people must combine and crush Albinocracy’......Page 283
A grave international issue......Page 287
A new world order?......Page 290
Asia for the Asiatics......Page 292
The search for solutions......Page 293
Japanese race discourse......Page 296
Advising the delegation......Page 297
Sixty million souls......Page 298
Whose equality?......Page 299
The initial approach......Page 300
Before the Commission......Page 302
Wilson’s ambivalence......Page 304
Democrats confront aristocrats......Page 305
Negotiations continued......Page 309
Top dogs triumph......Page 311
Lifting the load of responsibility......Page 313
National shame......Page 315
Global disillusion......Page 317
Preaching the gospel of whiteness......Page 322
Resurgent racism......Page 324
A white New Zealand......Page 327
A white Canada......Page 329
The power of inheritance......Page 330
Excluding the Japanese......Page 332
Japanese outrage, again......Page 334
Peoples of Asia unite......Page 336
South Africa: in the land of the white man......Page 338
Part 5 Towards universal human rights......Page 345
Minority treaties......Page 347
The generalisation of rights......Page 348
From minority rights to human rights......Page 349
Racial discrimination revisited......Page 351
White prestige collapses in the ‘Far East’......Page 352
A rising wind of protest......Page 353
India challenges South Africa......Page 355
Smuts humiliated......Page 356
The twisted contradiction......Page 358
The universal declaration......Page 359
A momentous occasion......Page 361
Race thinking assailed......Page 362
White men in retreat......Page 364
Index......Page 369