Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1 Modern mobilities
- Part 2 Discursive frameworks
- Part 3 Transnational solidarities
- Part 4 Challenge and consolidation
- 10 International conferences: cosmopolitan amity or racial enmity?
- 11 Japanese alienation and imperial ambition
- 12 Racial equality? The Paris Peace Conference, 1919
- 13 Immigration restriction in the 1920s: ‘segregation on a large scale’
- Part 5 Towards universal human rights
- Index
10 - International conferences: cosmopolitan amity or racial enmity?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1 Modern mobilities
- Part 2 Discursive frameworks
- Part 3 Transnational solidarities
- Part 4 Challenge and consolidation
- 10 International conferences: cosmopolitan amity or racial enmity?
- 11 Japanese alienation and imperial ambition
- 12 Racial equality? The Paris Peace Conference, 1919
- 13 Immigration restriction in the 1920s: ‘segregation on a large scale’
- Part 5 Towards universal human rights
- Index
Summary
Race questions
In January 1906, Josiah Royce received a letter from his old friend Felix Adler, writing from the Society for Ethical Culture in New York. Adler wrote with a request: would Royce deliver the address on ‘Race Prejudice’ in New York, in February, that he had already agreed to present to the Society in Philadelphia, ‘the daughter of the New York Society’. ‘I trust’, wrote Adler in jocular mode, ‘that at your age you will not be inclined to take a greater interest in a daughter than a mother’. He proposed an honorarium of $75 plus expenses. The deal was done and the lectures presented. During the following year, Royce gathered these and other addresses into a publication he would name Race Questions, Provincialism and Other American Problems.
Royce had been interested in the phenomenon of racial prejudice for years, since his earliest years growing up in Grass Valley on the Californian gold fields, and nearby San Francisco, where as a young, enquiring child he had witnessed the Chinese population segregated into Chinatown, with its exotic temples, gaudy theatres and decorated restaurants. The austere Disciples of Christ church attended by his parents was also segregated – white folks in the front seats and Negroes at the back. Black children had been expelled from the public school but, in 1858, Royce's father had signed a petition to the legislature supporting a law that would allow Negro testimony in court cases involving Caucasians.
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- Drawing the Global Colour LineWhite Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality, pp. 241 - 262Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008
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