Another White Man's Burden: Josiah Royce's Quest for a Philosophy of White Racial Empire

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Contents Preface: The Limits of Assimilative Methodologies in the Study of Race in American Philosophy Acknowledgments Introduction Origins of the Project Ideo-Racial Apartheid as Method and Paradigm: How American Philosophers Read Royce into Anti-Racist Discourse by Ignoring the Work of His Black Contemporaries The Debate concerning Josiah Royce and Racism Hiding Behind Blacks: The Historiographic Problem of Interpreting Josiah Royce Based on Black Associations Paradigms of Anti-Blackness: Interpreting Racism in Its Historical Context What Is Racism? On the Amendment of Categories: The Problem of Racist Concepts Being Revised as Anti-Racist Philosophy The Organization of the Book 1 Royce, Racism, and the Colonial Ideal: white Supremacy, Imperialism, and the Role of Assimilation in Josiah Royce’s Aberdeen Address Introduction California Dreams: Royce’s Nostalgia for the Coercion of the Foreigner The Lynching of a Woman: The Catalyst of Wise Provincialism Royce’s Ethnological Assertions in Context: Situating His Utilization of Frazer and Bastian Next to Chamberlain’s The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899) The Aberdeen Speech: Royce’s Disclosure of Colonial Assimilationism in “Some Characteristic Tendencies of American Civilization” Conclusion: Thoughts on the Colonial Policy of Royce and Mistaking Turn-of-the-Century Racism for Twenty-First Century Anti-Racism 2 Race Questions and the Black Problem: Royce’s Call for British Administration as a Solution to the Black Peril The white Peril: Understanding Racial Conflicts Expressed by the Term The Yellow Peril: How Japan Dealt with the white Peril of the West Perils in Black and white: Understanding the Debate between Thomas Nelson Page and Josiah Royce over the Administration of the Negro Olivier’s Twist: Negrophobia and the Jamaica Model of Colonization The Southerner’s Rejection of Royce’s Colonial Strategy: The Racial Condition He Sought to Import Conclusion 3 No Revisions Needed: Historicizing Royce’s Provincialism, His Appeal to the white Man’s Burden, and Contemporary Claims of His Anti-Racism Provincialism as the Instrument of Colonial Assimilation: Understanding the Relationship between the Colonial Ideal and the Colonizing Community Is Wise Provincialism a Colonial Ideal? Loyalty to Loyalty as a Post–Civil War Doctrine The Problem with the “Provincial Revision” and Other Ahistorical Justifications for Using Royce as an Anti-Racist Thinker Wise Provincialism as Wise whiteness: Sullivan’s Interpretation of Royce’s Race Thinking and Her Solidification of whiteness Conclusion 4 On the Dark Arts: The Ethnological Foundations of Royce’s Idealism as Derivative from Joseph Le Conte’s “Southern Problems”; or The Evolutionary Basis of Royce’s Assimilationist Program Exorcising Royce’s Racist Spirit: How Le Contean Evolutionism Manifests as Royce’s Evolutionary (Social) Theodicy Le Conte’s Southern Problems: The Ethnological Foundations of Royce’s Administrative Strategy Developing the Dark Arts: Royce’s Race Theory as an Extension of Le Conte’s Evolutionary Aesthetic He Wasn’t Even a Little Less Racist: John M. Mecklin’s Criticism of Royce’s Ethnological Interpretation of Race Traits Conclusion Epilogue Is the Debate about Royce’s Racism a Historiography of Redemption? The Apologetic Exegesis of Royce’s Imperial Aspirations There Is Another (Du Boisian) King: The Irreconcilable Difference between Martin Luther King Jr. and Josiah Royce’s Idea of the Beloved Community Notes Index