Othello and the Psychogeography of the State under Siege

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> Triumphalism of racial supremacy is always a veneer, and beneath it one
> can see a barely hidden psychology of the state under siege, threatened by
> anarchic and uncivilized forces of the racial Other, the cultural Other, and
> Woman as well as insubordinations of domestic malcontents and plotters of
> the lower order.
> >Yoshie
> 
> Sometimes "barely hidden" doesn't even come close.  In the fall of 1900,
> Albert Beveridge gave a speech to the "young men of Indianapolis" about why
> they ought to become lifelong Republicans.  (This is the same year he gave
> his famous speech in the Senate about what our racial duties and economic
> opportunities were in the Philippines.)  
> Steve 

US policymakers responded to Article XXVII of the 1917 Mexico constitution
governing land reform and foreign investment with a bevy of racist 
sentiments...for example, James R. Sheffield, US ambassador to Mexico 
during the years 1925-1927, stated that the problem in dealing with 
Mexico was "There is a very little white blood in the Cabinet"...
Michael Hoover