Window on Freedom Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988

Name: Window on Freedom Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
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ISBN: 9780807854280

ISBN-10: 080785428X

ISBN-13: 9780807854280

Edition: 2003

Authors: Brenda Gayle Plummer

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The civil rights movement in the United States drew strength from supporters of human rights worldwide. Once policy makers--influenced by international pressure, the courage of ordinary American citizens, and a desire for global leadership--had signed such documents as the United Nations charter, domestic calls for change could be based squarely on the moral authority of doctrines the United States endorsed abroad. This is one of the many fascinating links between racial politics and international affairs explored inWindow on Freedom. Broad in chronological scope and topical diversity, the ten original essays presented here demonstrate how the roots of U.S. foreign policy have been embedded…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/28/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Brenda Gayle Plummer is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960.



Introduction



Seen from the Outside: The International Perspective on America's Dilemma



Race from Power: U.S. Foreign Policy and the General Crisis of White Supremacy



Brown Babies: Race, Gender, and Policy after World War II



Bleached Souls and Red Negroes: The NAACP and Black Communists in the Early Cold War, 1948-1952



An American Dilemma: Race and Realpolitik in the American Response to the Bandung Conference, 1955



Segregationists and the World: The Foreign Policy of the White Resistance



The Unwelcome Mat: African Diplomats in Washington, D.C., during the Kennedy Years



Birmingham, Addis Ababa, and the Image of America: International Influence on U.S. Civil Rights Politics in the Kennedy Administration



Antiwar Aztlan: The Chicano Movement Opposes U.S. Intervention in Vietnam



From Cold War to Global Interdependence: The Political Economy of African American Antiapartheid Activism, 1968-1988



Selected Bibliography


Contributors


Index