HODGE, T. Shirby

   Pseudonym of US writer Roger Sherman Tracy (1841-1926). His sf novel, The White Man's Burden: A Satirical Forecast (1915), is set in AD5000, by which period the warlike and primitive White races have been restricted to North America while, in Black-dominated Africa, anarchism and scientificgenius have generated a UTOPIAN world. A White invasion suffers ignominious defeat, and the narrator - a (White) interloper from the 20th century - returns to his own time. Considering its period, the book is remarkable for declining to treat Blacks as inherently inferior to Whites.

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   See also: POLITICS.