Shadowing the white man's burden: U.S. imperialism and the problem of the color line

Introduction : writing race on the world's stage

Part I: Reading Kipling in America. The burden of whiteness ; The white man's burden or the leopard's spots? Dixon's political conundrum

Part II: The Black cosmopolite. The plain citizen of black orientalism : Frank R. Steward's Filipino-American war fiction ; Pauline Hopkins's "international policy" : cosmopolitan perspective at the Colored American magazine

Part III: Pacific expansion and transnational fictions of race. How the Irish became Japanese : Winnifred Eaton's transnational racial reconstructions ; American Indians, Asiatics, and Anglo-Saxons : Ranald MacDonald's Japan story of adventure.