Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : writing race on the world's stage
  • The burden of whiteness
  • The white man's burden or the leopard's spots? Dixon's political conundrum
  • The plain citizen of black orientalism : Frank R. Steward's Filipino-American war fiction
  • Pauline Hopkins's "international policy" : cosmopolitan perspective at the Colored American magazine
  • How the Irish became Japanese : Winnifred Eaton's transnational racial reconstructions
  • American Indians, Asiatics, and Anglo-Saxons : Ranald MacDonald's Japan story of adventure.