Reddit mentions of Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality (Critical Perspectives on Empire)

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> elements in US politics had embraced a more “ethnic” narrative of nationalism in mimicry of the Europeans.

In fact, it went even further than just a European-style national chauvinism to an identity as representatives of the "white race", predicting and fearing a conflict with "non-whites", first the Chinese and then the Japanese after the Sino and Russo Japanese wars. Drawing the Global Colour Line is a fascinating look at this phenomenon across the Pacific. It has a chapter about how the Great White Fleet was seen by both Roosevelt and Australians/New Zealanders as a message to the non-white Japanese

> But, also like many other totalizing unfalsifiable theories, it was a big success in popular thought of that era. Though it’s always hard to draw a straight line between an idea written in a book and a national policy, the popularity of this thesis was a major motive behind the rise in naval expenditure by several powers during this era

In the American sense, I would also point out that Teddy Roosevelt was personally a big proponent of the book, and had an enormous amount of influence over US naval policy throughout his public life