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

• Autore: Borstelmann Thomas
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 369 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.80097309045
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Cold War and the color line
• ISBN: 0-674-26221-2; 0-674-02854-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778181303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II