Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898-1948 Rachel Kauder Nalebuff from his savage exile to

from his savage exile to the heart of the country and then back to Paris

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an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism

Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898-1948 Rachel Kauder Nalebuff from his savage exile toFrom 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion. Black men and women were mobilized for service in the Spanish Cuban American War under the War Department's belief that southern blacks carried an immunity against tropical diseases. Later, in World Wars I and II, black troops were stigmatized as members of a