Another white man's burden: Josiah Royce's quest for a philosophy of white racial empire

Intro -- 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

Royce, racism and the colonial ideal: white supremacy, imperialism, and the role of assimilation in Josiah Royce's Aberdeen address -- Race questions and the Black problem: Royce's call for British administration as a solution to the Black peril -- No revisions needed: historicizing Royce's provincialism, his appeal to the white man's burden, and contemporary claims of his anti-racism -- 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