Description: This book examines the interaction of history, foreign policy, and racial ideology. The relationship of the United States to its overseas territories has been largely shaped by the prevailing "racial tradition" and social structure in the United States itself. Prevailing racial attitudes had previously shaped continental territorial expansion. (For example, attitudes of racial superiority served as justifiers for the expropriation of Native American lands.) Following colonial acquisition at the turn of the century, the American "racial tradition" was exported to overseas territories, largely determining colonial policy and administrative practice, the nature of social and racial conflict, and the direction and pace of political evolution in the territories.

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