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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780368803321

Titolo

Window on freedom [[electronic resource] ] : race, civil rights, and foreign affairs, 1945-1988 / / edited by Brenda Gayle Plummer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2003

ISBN

979-88-908725-9-3

0-8078-6308-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PlummerBrenda Gayle

Disciplina

327.73

Soggetti

Racism - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

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

United States Foreign relations 1945-1989

United States Race relations Political aspects

United States Foreign relations Developing countries

Developing countries Foreign relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Seen from the outside : the international perspective on America's dilemma / Paul Gordon Lauren -- Race from power : U.S. foreign policy and the general crisis of white supremacy / Gerald Horne -- Brown babies : race, gender, and policy after World War II / Brenda Gayle Plummer -- Bleached souls and Red Negroes : the NAACP and Black Communists in the early Cold War, 1948-1952 / Cary Fraser -- An American dilemma : race and realpolitik in the American response to the Bandung Conference, 1955 / Cary Fraser -- Segregationists and the world : the foreign policy of the white resistance / Thomas Noer -- The unwelcome mat : African diplomats in Washington, D.C., during the Kennedy years / Michael Krenn -- Birmingham, Addis Ababa, and the image of America : international influence on U.S. civil rights politics in the Kennedy administration / Mary L. Dudziak -- Antiwar Aztlán : the Chicano movement opposes U.S. intervention in Vietnam / Lorena Oropeza -- From Cold War to global interdependence : the political economy of African American antiapartheid activism, 1968-1988 /



Donald R. Culverson.

Sommario/riassunto

Demonstrates how US foreign policy has been embedded in social, economic and cultural factors of domestic and foreign origin. It argues that the campaign to realize full civil rights for racial and ethnic minorities in the US is best understood in the context of competitive international relations.