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

Thomas Borstelmann

Published by Harvard University Press 2003

The Cold War and the Color Line

American Race Relations in the Global Arena

Thomas Borstelmann

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674028548

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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.

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[Borstelmann traces] the constellation of racial challenges each administration faced (focusing particularly on African affairs abroad and African American civil rights at home), rather than highlighting the crises that made headlines… By avoiding the crutch of ‘turning points’ for storytelling convenience, he makes a convincing case that no single event can be untied from a constantly thickening web of connections among civil rights, American foreign policy, and world affairs.
-- Jesse Berrett Village Voice

Borstelmann…analyzes the history of white supremacy in relation to the history of the Cold War, with particular emphasis on both African Americans and Africa. In a book that makes a good supplement to Mary Dudziak’s Cold War Civil Rights, he dissects the history of U.S. domestic race relations and foreign relations over the past half-century… This book provides new insights into the dynamics of American foreign policy and international affairs and will undoubtedly be a useful and welcome addition to the literature on U.S. foreign policy and race relations. Recommended.
-- Edward G. McCormack Library Journal

In rich, informing detail enlivened with telling anecdote, Cornell historian Borstelmann unites under one umbrella two commonly separated strains of the U.S. post-WWII experience: our domestic political and cultural history, where the Civil Rights movement holds center stage, and our foreign policy, where the Cold War looms largest… No history could be more timely or more cogent. This densely detailed book, wide ranging in its sources, contains lessons that could play a vital role in reshaping American foreign and domestic policy.
-- Publishers Weekly

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Prologue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Race and Foreign Relations before 1945 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
2. Jim Crow’s Coming Out Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. The Last Hurrah of the Old Color Line Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
4. Revolutions in the American South and Southern Africa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
5. The Perilous Path to Equality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
6. The End of the Cold War and White Supremacy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
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Archives and Manuscript Collections Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 384

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Published: July 1, 2009
ISBN: 9780674028548