-Take up the white man's burden - So wrote the English writer Rudyard Kipling in 1899, in a poem aimed at Americans at a time when colonial ambitions were particularly high. The poem proved especially popular among white southern men, who saw in its vision of America's imperial future an image that appeared to reflect and even redeem the South's plantation past.
Romances of the White Man's Burden takes on works in American literature in which the proverbial -old plantation- is made to seem not a relic but a harbinger, a sign that the South had arrived at a multiracial modernity...
-Take up the white man's burden - So wrote the English writer Rudyard Kipling in 1899, in a poem aimed at Americans at a time when colonial ambitions ...
