This provocative study examines Theodore Roosevelt's ideas about race, focusing especially on his attitude toward blacks, American Indians, immigration, and imperialism. Thomas G. Dyer gives careful attention to formal and nonformal aspects of Roosevelt's thought, as revealed in his voluminous published works and personal papers. Dyer's book asks a number of important questions. In what proportions do popular thought and formal racial theory appear in Roosevelt's attitudes? What was the intellectual context of his ...
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This provocative study examines Theodore Roosevelt's ideas about race, focusing especially on his attitude toward blacks, American Indians, immigration, and imperialism. Thomas G. Dyer gives careful attention to formal and nonformal aspects of Roosevelt's thought, as revealed in his voluminous published works and personal papers. Dyer's book asks a number of important questions. In what proportions do popular thought and formal racial theory appear in Roosevelt's attitudes? What was the intellectual context of his speculations on race? How was his racial thought related to broader areas of intellectual activity such as natural science and social philosophy? How did Roosevelt regard various white and nonwhite ethnic groups? How did Roosevelt's racial thought conform to the prevailing philosophies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Historians have traditionally disagreed about the character of Theodore Roosevelt's racial ideology. Dyer's illuminating study clarifies many of the relevant issues by viewing Roosevelt's racial theory as an integrated whole.
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VG-/VG-(ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages are otherwise very clean. ) Navy cloth boards with silver spine lettering; bw illustrated dj with red and black lettering, mylar cover; xiii, 182 pp. "Focusing on Theodore Roosevelt-American president, scholar, and scientist-this provocative study explores dimensions of thinking on matters of race at the turn of the century. By accentuating the development of the idea of race in the mind of Roosevelt and its influence on his political career, Dyer demonstrates the pervasiveness and complexities of race thinking in general during this period."-dj Contents: The racial education of Theodore Roosevelt--Theory--History and the Anglo-Saxon tradition--Indians--Blacks--Race, immigration, and imperialism--Race suicide. Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176).
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