Title The burden of white supremacy : containing Asian migration in the British Empire and the United States / David Atkinson

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 319 pages) Contents Introduction : the politics of Asian mobility in the British Empire and the United States -- The language of immobility in Australasia -- Mobility and indenture in southern Africa -- The politics of Asian labor mobility in North America -- The limits of Anglo-American solidarity and collaboration -- The politics of Asian restriction in a world at war -- Making peace with Asian immobility : London, Paris, and Washington -- Reinforcing Asian immobility on the Pacific Rim -- Conclusion : the burdens of white supremacy Summary "From 1896 to 1924, motivated by fears of an irresistible wave of Asian migration and the possibility that whites might be ousted from their position of global domination, British colonists and white Americans instituted stringent legislative controls on Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian immigration. Historians of these efforts typically stress similarity and collaboration between these movements, but in this compelling study, David C. Atkinson highlights the differences in these campaigns and argues that the main factor unifying these otherwise distinctive drives was the constant tensions they caused. Drawing on documentary evidence from the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and New Zealand, Atkinson traces how these exclusionary regimes drew inspiration from similar racial, economic, and strategic anxieties, but nevertheless developed idiosyncratically in the first decades of the twentieth century. Arguing that the so-called white man's burden was often white supremacy itself, Atkinson demonstrates how the tenets of absolute exclusion--meant to foster white racial, political, and economic supremacy--only inflamed dangerous tensions that threatened to undermine the British Empire, American foreign relations, and the new framework of international cooperation that followed the First World War."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Asians -- Migrations. Immigrants -- Great Britain -- Social conditions Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions White nationalism -- Great Britain White nationalism -- United States SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies. Asians -- Migrations Emigration and immigration Immigrants -- Social conditions White nationalism SUBJECT Asia -- Emigration and immigration Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration United States -- Emigration and immigration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040 Subject Asia Great Britain United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469630298 146963029X

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