The White Pacific
U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19939587 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerald Horne, Gerald Home (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 264 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | White Pacific (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9780824865177 |
| OpenAlex | W628433580 |
| Open Library | OL29225620M |
| ISBN | 9780824865177 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative markets, particularly in the South Pacific, and plantation agriculture grew substantially in disparate areas such as Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii. The increase in production required an increase in labor; in the rush to fill the vacuum, freebooters and other unsavory characters began a slave trade in Melanesians and Polynesians that continued into the twentieth century. The White Pacific ranges over the broad expanse of Oceania to reconstruct the history of "blackbirding" (slave trading) in the region. It examines the role of U.S. citizens (many of them ex-slaveholders and ex-confederates) in the trade and its roots in Civil War dislocations. What unfolds is a dramatic tale of unfree labor, conflicts between formal and informal empire, white supremacy, threats to sovereignty in Hawaii, the origins of a White Australian policy, and the rise of Japan as a Pacific power and putative protector. It also pieces together a wonderfully suggestive history of the African American presence in the Pacific. Based on deft archival research in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, the United States, and Great Britain, The White Pacific uncovers a heretofore hidden story of race, labor, war, and intrigue that contributes significantly to the emerging intersectional histories of race and ethnicity
Eagle · Economic history · Ethnic group · Genealogy · Geography · Political science · Politics · Polynesians · Population · Power (physics) · Race (biology) · Racism · Sociology · Sovereignty · Spanish Civil War · White (mutation) · White supremacy · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Australian History and Society · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Law · 19th century · Australia · Forced labor · foreign relations · hawaii · Imperialism · Oceania · politics and government · race relations · Slavery · Social conditions · territories and possessions · united states
Colonizing Workers
Introduction
Bibliography of Books and Articles Published in English on Colonialism and Imperialism in 2007
Objects, Methods, and Interpretations
Frontier Risk” and the Sino-American Scramble in the Sahel
The Eaton Sisters and the Figure of the Eurasian
American Slavery, American Imperialism
Pacific Revisions of Blackness
More expendable than slaves? Racial justice and the after-life of slavery
Moving Forward with the Legitimation of the Azibo Nosology II
From the black Atlantic to the bleak Pacific
Forget English Freedom, Remember Atlantic Slavery
The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
Over two centuries
The Strange Career of the Convict Clause
African Americans in the International Imaginary
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,89 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2021 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |