The Little Brown Brother by Stanley Portal Hyatt

The Little Brown Brother by Stanley Portal Hyatt (1908) is a novel about the Philippine-American War written by an Englishman who fought in it. The book takes its title from Taft’s paternalist phrase for Filipinos and opens with American soldiers singing the notorious “Damn, damn, damn the Filipinos” marching song, setting up a narrative that holds America’s civilizing-mission rhetoric against the brutality of actually waging the war.