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WHITE WORLD ORDER, BLACK POWER POLITICS A volume in the series The United States in the World Edited by Mark Philip Bradley, David C. Engerman, Amy S. Greenberg, and Paul A. Kramer A list of titles in this series is available at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu. WHITE WORLD ORDER, BLACK POWER POLITICS THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Robert Vitalis CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Ithaca and London Copyright © 2015 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. First published 2015 by Cornell University Press Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Vitalis, Robert, 1955– author. White world order, black power politics : the birth of American international relations / Robert Vitalis. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8014-5397-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. International relations—Study and teaching (Higher)—United States—History—20th century. 2. United States—Race relations—History—20th century. 3. Racism in higher education—United States—History—20th century. 4. Imperialism— Historiography. 5. Howard University—History— 20th century. I. Title. JZ1305.V49 2015 327.730089'96073—dc23 2015018531 Cornell University Press strives to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the fullest extent possible in the publishing of its books. Such materials include vegetable-based, low-VOC inks and acid-free papers that are recycled, totally chlorine-free, or partly composed of nonwood fibers. For further information, visit our website at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu. Cloth printing 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Chloe and Phoebe , , , Σα`γαπω παρα πολυ Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: A Mongrel American Social Science 1 Part I. T he Noble Science of Imperial Relations and Its Laws of Race Development 25 1. Empire by Association 29 2. Race Children 46 Part II. Worlds of Color 55 3. Storm Centers of Political Theory and Practice 59 4. Imperialism and Internationalism in the 1920s 71 Part III. T he North versus the Black Atlantic 85 5. Making the World Safe for “Minorities” 93 6. The Philanthropy of Masters 106 Part IV. “The Dark World Goes Free” 121 7. The First but Not Last Crisis of a Cold War Profession 129 8. Hands of Ethiopia 143 9. The Fate of the Howard School 158 vii viii ConTenTS Conclusion: The High Plane of Dignity and Discipline 169 Notes 183 Bibliography 233 Index 263 Preface This book has its origins in a cold, gray Decem- ber afternoon in Worcester, Massachusetts, as I wandered through Clark University’s Goddard Library. During its founding decades, Clark was at the forefront of the development of graduate education in the United States, but those days are long gone. I was teaching International Relations there in the early 1990s and working hard to avoid my students’ final papers when I pulled William Koelsch’s history of the school off the stacks. In the sec- tion discussing Clark’s signal contributions to early twentieth-century social science, Koelsch credited psychologist G. Stanley Hall and historian (and, after 1915, professor of history and international relations) George Hubbard Blakeslee with starting the discipline’s first specialized journal, the Journal of Race Development, in 1910, which the editors renamed the Journal of Interna­ tional Relations in 1919.1 This can’t be correct, I thought. Everyone in the field understands that the new post-Versailles internationalist think tanks—the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York—rolled out the field’s first journals in the mid-1920s. Koelsch, though, was in fact right. My eye-opening reeducation began with the brittle pages of the twelve bound volumes of the forgotten journal and, from there, the Blakeslee Papers at Clark and the Hamilton Fish Armstrong Papers at Princeton University. These records let me piece together the story of the sale of “Blakeslee’s magazine” to the Council on Foreign Relations, relaunched with its new, they hoped, punchier title, Foreign Affairs. It took some time for this more accurate story of the origins of the field of International Relations to circulate. I began giving papers at conferences on the early history in 1998 and published the first version in 2002.2 I also contacted the digital repository JSTOR proposing that they make the journal available. I was told that the digitization and dissemination of the Journal of Race Development was not in the cards, although I was not told why. None- theless, it is available today with a link to its successors. The early volumes can also be downloaded from the Internet Archive. A Wikipedia entry now exists ix

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