Manifest Destiny

(from Race: The Power of an Illusion: The Story We Tell)
- Ngai said that most white Americans believed that the west wad them, and for them alone.
- Manifest destiny is the philosophy the impelled the expansion into the west in the mid 19th-century.
- The 1904 World’s Fair showed a direct link between manifest destiny here in the US, and the country’s increasing drive to expand overseas.