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Book SynopsisIn No Middle Ground: Anti-Imperialists and Ethical Witnessing During the Philippine-American War, Erin L. Murphy argues that activists in the Anti-Imperialist movement against the Philippine-American War, led by the Anti-Imperialist League, followed an evolving path of ethical witnessing where leaders empathically considered the experience of imperialist violence as it was expressed by marginalized anti-imperialists. Murphy explores how the perspectives of marginalized anti-imperialists like white women, black women and men, and Filipino/as, led Anti-Imperialist League leaders, who were predominantly white men of some prominence, to evolve their activism from focusing on defending the U.S. Constitution through electoral politics and the legality of U.S. Empire to exposing the imperialist violence committed by the U. S. military as crimes against fundamental human rights. Activists believed that advocating for human rights held true to the principles in the U.S. Constitution while U.S.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Awakening to Empire Part I: A World of Empires and the White Man’s Burden Chapter One: Anti-Imperialisms and Ethical Witnessing Chapter Two: Sacred Democracy and the Presidential Election of 1900 Part II: From Tracking Public Opinion to Tracking the Law Chapter Three: The Senate Investigation on Affairs in the Philippines Chapter Four: Monitoring Benevolent Assimilation Policies Conclusion: Ethical Witnessing and the Dream of Inalienable Rights
