African American educator and activist Booker T. Washington visited Britain in 1899 and 1910. This article uses these transatlantic encounters to reassess conventional notions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as an era of rapprochement between Britain and the United States rooted in racial ideas of Anglo-Saxon supremacy. It shows how the visits exacerbated a rift between the two countries over the issue of race. At a time when the United States had started to eclipse their own country economically, Britons used their enthusiastic reception of Washington as a means to reassert their claims to moral superiority over Americans whom they accused of failing to fulfil their paternalist obligations to other races. Race was therefore the cause of conflict as much as cooperation in Anglo-American relations.

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“英国人无法理解的感觉”：布克·T·华盛顿和英美竞争

非裔美国教育家和活动家布克·T·华盛顿于 1899 年和 1910 年访问了英国。本文利用这些跨大西洋的相遇重新评估了 19 世纪末和 20 世纪初的传统观念，认为这是一个植根于种族观念的英美和解时代。盎格鲁-撒克逊霸权。它显示了访问如何加剧了两国在种族问题上的分歧。在美国开始在经济上超越他们自己国家的时候，英国人利用他们对华盛顿的热情接待来重申他们对美国人的道德优越感，他们指责美国人没有履行对其他种族的家长式义务。因此，在英美关系中，种族和合作一样是冲突的原因。