Cold War and the Color Line American Race Relations in the Global Arena

Name: Cold War and the Color Line American Race Relations in the Global Arena
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ISBN: 9780674012387

ISBN-10: 0674012380

ISBN-13: 9780674012387

Edition: 2001

Authors: Thomas Borstelmann

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After World War II the United States faced two preeminent challenges: how to administer its responsibilities abroad as the world's strongest power, and how to manage the rising movement at home for racial justice and civil rights. The effort to contain the growing influence of the Soviet Union resulted in the Cold War, a conflict that emphasized the American commitment to freedom. The absence of that freedom for nonwhite American citizens confronted the nation's leaders with an embarrassing contradiction. Racial discrimination after 1945 was a foreign as well as a domestic problem. World War II opened the door to both the U.S. civil rights movement and the struggle of Asians and Africans…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

Thomas ("Tim") Borstelmann is the Elwood N. and Katherine Thompson Distinguished Professor of Modern World History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.



Preface


Prologue



Race and Foreign Relations before 1945



Jim Crow's Coming Out



The Last Hurrah of the Old Color Line



Revolutions in the American South and Southern Africa



The Perilous Path to Equality



The End of the Cold War and White Supremacy


Epilogue


Notes


Archives and Manuscript Collections


Index