Eric Love challenges prevailing notions of race and imperialism by presenting a critical reinterpretation of the complex interactions between politics, race, labor, immigration, and foreign relations at the dawn of the American century. Using memoirs, speeches, newspapers and journals, and governmental and diplomatic papers, diaries and private letters, Love rewrites the history of race and U.S. imperialsim from the end of the Civil War to the annexations that followed the 1898 Spanish-American War.