The White Man's Burden Themes

When "White Man" appears right in the title, you know you'd better buckle up, Shmoopers. Some bumpy racial terrain is dead ahead. "The White Man's Burden" doesn't disappoint. The speaker pretty muc...

Any ladies in the house? Good—now you can just sit back down and rest your delicate tootsies—this poem isn't for you. "White" may be the most incendiary part of the "The White Man's Burden" tit...

The call of duty is strong in "The White Man's Burden." Sure, it came more than a hundred years before the Call of Duty video games, but the poem and the game have a lot in common. Dangerous missio...

It's time to pay the price, white men. At least, that's one way to sum up the speaker's argument in "The White Man's Burden." He's certainly not selling this work as anything that will be fun, or r...