Contagions of Empire
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From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion. Black men and women were mobilized for service in the Spanish-Cuban-American War under the War Department''s belief that southern blacks carried an immunity against tropical diseases. Later, in World Wars...
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From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion. Black men and women were mobilized for service in the Spanish-Cuban-American War under the War Department''s belief that southern blacks carried an immunity against tropical diseases. Later, in World Wars...
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