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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778181303321

Autore

Borstelmann Thomas

Titolo

The Cold War and the color line [[electronic resource] ] : American race relations in the global arena / / Thomas Borstelmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, c2001

ISBN

0-674-26221-2

0-674-02854-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 369 p.)

Disciplina

305.80097309045

Soggetti

Cold War - Social aspects - United States

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century

Black people - Civil rights - South Africa - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - South Africa - History - 20th century

United States Race relations Political aspects

United States Foreign relations 1945-1989

United States Foreign relations 1945-1989 Social aspects

Southern States Race relations Political aspects

South Africa Race relations Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-356) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface Prologue 1. Race and Foreign Relations before 1945 2. Jim Crow's Coming Out 3. The Last Hurrah of the Old Color Line 4. Revolutions in the American South and Southern Africa 5. The Perilous Path to Equality 6. The End of the Cold War and White Supremacy Epilogue Notes Archives and Manuscript Collections Index

Sommario/riassunto

Offers a comprehensive examination of how the Cold War intersected with the final destruction of global white supremacy. Thomas Borstelmann pays close attention to the two Souths - Southern Africa and the American South - as the primary sites of white authority's last stand.