 In 1908 Royce published a collection of essays entitled Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems. The key essay, “Race Questions and Prejudices,” had appeared in the International Journal of Ethics in 1906. This established Royce as one of the most prominent white philosophers of his time to address racial prejudice, drawing upon the leading ethnological research of his day. Royce’s philosophy enters debates about race in another important way, as well. Martin Luther King, Jr. adapted Royce’s concept of the Beloved Community—which King had likely learned through his mentor, Howard W. Thurman—as an important rhetorical and visionary ideal for the U. S. civil rights movement (Jensen and King   2017).[1]