LEADER 04898nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910778181303321 005 20221108041607.0 010 $a0-674-26221-2 010 $a0-674-02854-6 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674028548 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786808 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050604 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000124530 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11143805 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000124530 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10024391 035 $a(PQKB)11308903 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300333 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10315837 035 $a(OCoLC)923110676 035 $a(DE-B1597)588893 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674028548 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300333 035 $a(OCoLC)1322125031 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786808 100 $a20010425d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Cold War and the color line$b[electronic resource] $eAmerican race relations in the global arena /$fThomas Borstelmann 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 369 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-00597-X 311 $a0-674-01238-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-356) and index. 327 $aPreface 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 330 $aOffers 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. 330 $bAfter 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 abroad for independence from colonial rule. America's closest allies against the Soviet Union, however, were colonial powers whose interests had to be balanced against those of the emerging independent Third World in a multiracial, anticommunist alliance. At the same time, U.S. racial reform was essential to preserve the domestic consensus needed to sustain the Cold War struggle. The Cold War and the Color Line is the first 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. He reveals America's efforts to contain the racial polarization that threatened to unravel the anticommunist western alliance. In so doing, he recasts the history of American race relations in its true international context, one that is meaningful and relevant for our own era of globalization. 606 $aCold War$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCivil rights movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aBlack people$xCivil rights$zSouth Africa$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCivil rights movements$zSouth Africa$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xPolitical aspects 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989$xSocial aspects 607 $aSouthern States$xRace relations$xPolitical aspects 607 $aSouth Africa$xRace relations$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aCold War$xSocial aspects 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory 615 0$aBlack people$xCivil rights$xHistory 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory 676 $a305.80097309045 700 $aBorstelmann$b Thomas$0515355 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778181303321 996 $aThe Cold War and the color line$93671672 997 $aUNINA