Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 by Gail BedermanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Progressive era? Resolutions?
Ida B. Wells - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._...
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By depicting imperialism as a prophylactic means of avoiding effeminacy and racial decadence, Roosevelt constructed it as part of the status quo and hid the fact that this sort of militaristic overseas involvement was actually a new departure in American foreign policy. American men must struggle to retain their racially innate masculine strength, which had originally been forged in battle with the savage Indians on the frontier; otherwise the race would backslide into overcivilized decadence. With no Indians left to fight at home, then, American men must press on and confront new races, abroad.
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