How colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
… Weber wrote in September 1917, there “stands a dross of African and Asiatic savages and all the world’s rabble of … lumpens.” Weber was referring to the millions of Indian, African, Arab, Chinese and Vietnamese soldiers and labourers, … from its colonies in Africa and Indochina. Nearly 400,000 African Americans were also inducted into US forces. The …