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Introduction -- " 'I am for the little man': Charlie Chaplin's Comedies and the Eugenic American" -- Is the "Strenuous Life" a Pleasant Life? Euthenic Efficiency, Racial Duty, and the Phenomenon of Anita Loos -- Eugenic Marriages and Psychometrics in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi! and the Vegetable -- Cosmopolitanism vs. Eugenic Racial Nationalism: Ernest Hemingway's The Torrents of Spring and Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race -- For "The Betterment of The Human Family"? California Sterilizations, Wallace Thurman and Tomorrow's Children -- Conclusions: Could It Have Happened Here? The Borderline Existence of Anti-Eugenic Satire.

This anthology offers fresh perspectives on cosmopolitanism that reflect cultural challenges in the contemporary world. It demonstrates that new cosmopolitan thinking can be combined with a sensitivity to ethnic and local difference. Moreover, it argues that rather than clinging to the utopian notion of color-blind universalism, new cosmopolitan cultural practices should acknowledge the persistence of "race" in lived experience.

This anthology sheds new light on cosmopolitanism and culture in the contemporary world. Drawing on postcolonial, ethnic, and critical race studies as well as recent literary and critical theory, it demonstrates that new cosmopolitan thinking can embrace an awareness of ethnic and local differences. It disputes the utopianism of colorblind universalism and argues for the persistence of "race" and racialized thinking in lived experience. The essays collected in this volume valorize minoritarian perspectives and urge readers to rethink cosmopolitanism from the perspective of the underprivileged and marginalized and highlight the role of culture in mobilizing social empathy and solidarity with the world's precariat. The contributors, who come from over a dozen different countries and from diverse socio-cultural backgrounds, constitute a vibrant cosmopolitan community in itself