Black Man's Burden [SEP] publisher
: the search for Utopia. He cautions, however, that Utopia is “a goal that recedes as you approach, which is as it should be,” revealing that Reynolds’ notion of Utopia, like his idea of human progress, depends on constant striving for a better future.
Publication history and reception.
"Black Man's Burden" was originally published as a two-part series in "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" (December 1961 and January 1962). In 1972, Ace Books reprinted it
of the black man's burden and the weight of the white man's burden in their building a colonial empire. The philosophic perspective of "The Black Man's Burden [A Reply to Rudyard Kipling]" (1920), by the social critic Hubert Harrison, describes moral degradation as a consequence of being a colonized coloured man and of being a white colonizer. Moreover, since the late 20th-century contexts of post-imperial decolonisation and of the developing world, the phrase "The white man's burden" communicates