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S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Similarly, both leaders were also influenced by the parallel analyses published by the American author James Bryce.

These influences also pervaded the Indian Continent, where restrictions against actually emulating the American institution of outright slavery gave rise to the concept of indentured servitude instead. Compounding the moral depravity, the British Colonialists responded to the competition for labor and the resulting diminution of white wages by resorting to restrictive immigration policies. In this respect, the authors also detail the influence of institutionalized racist policies pioneered in the American South in connection with the thinly veiled race-based restriction on voting rights of the newly-emancipated African-American black former slaves. In particular, the authors explain the influence of American voting eligibility literacy tests in conjunction with "grandfather clauses" that exempted illiterate white voters whose parents and grandparents had voted while excluding emancipated black because virtually no African-Americans (whose ancestors had all been slaves without voting rights) could possibly satisfy those exemptions.
In the Commonwealth, these mechanisms manifested themselves in the infamous "dictation tests" within the White Australia Policy.

Ultimately, the book provides a retrospective account that illustrates that the overtly racist national policies and sentiments whose vestigial remains are still evident in the American Continent, South Africa, and in the Commonwealth of Australia today, are the product of a shared form of transnational racism and to the mutual influence of sovereign nations more than a century ago and not just to "natural" ethnic atavistic xenophobia that is also an unfortunate feature of human societies throughout recorded….....

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