African Americans in U.S. foreign policy : from the era of Frederick Douglass to the age of Obama / edited by Linda Heywood, Allison Blakely, Charles Stith, and Joshua C. Yesnowitz.

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ISBN:

9780252096839

Título:

African Americans in U.S. foreign policy : from the era of Frederick Douglass to the age of Obama / edited by Linda Heywood, Allison Blakely, Charles Stith, and Joshua C. Yesnowitz.

Autor:

Heywood, Linda M. (Linda Marinda), 1945-

Descripción física:

1 online resource.

Nota general:

This volume originated in the conference "African Americans and U.S. Foreign Policy" held at Boston University on October 26-28, 2010.

Contenido:

Preface : reflections of a black ambassador / Blacks in the U.S. diplomatic and consular services, 1869-1924 / A new Negro foreign policy : the critical vision of Alain Locke and Ralph Bunche / Carl Rowan and the dilemma of civil rights, propaganda, and the Cold War / Reconstruction's revival : the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention and the roots of black populist diplomacy / White shame/black agency : race as a weapon in post-World War I diplomacy / Goodwill ambassadors : African American athletes and U.S. cultural diplomacy, 1947-1969 / The paradox of jazz diplomacy : race and culture in the Cold War / African American representatives in the United Nations : from Ralph Bunche to Susan Rice / Obama, African Americans, and Africans : the double vision / Epilogue : the impact of African Americans on U.S. foreign policy

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Término del tema:

African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

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

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.

Término geográfico:

United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century -- Citizen participation.

United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century -- Social aspects.

United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects.

Autor añadido:

Heywood, Linda M. (Linda Marinda), 1945-

Blakely, Allison, 1940-

Stith, Charles R.

Yesnowitz, Joshua C.

Formato:

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Fecha de publicación:

2015

WAIT_PUBINFO:

Urbana, Illinois :

University of Illinois Press,

2015.

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Resumen

Bookended by remarks from African American diplomats Walter C. Carrington and Charles Stith, the essays in this volume use close readings of speeches, letters, historical archives, diaries, memoirs of policymakers, and newly available FBI files to confront much-neglected questions related to race and foreign relations in the United States. Why, for instance, did African Americans profess loyalty and support for the diplomatic initiatives of a nation that undermined their social, political, and economic well-being through racist policies and cultural practices? Other contributions explore African Americans' history in the diplomatic and consular services and the influential roles of cultural ambassadors like Joe Louis and Louis Armstrong. The volume concludes with an analysis of the effects on race and foreign policy in the administration of Barack Obama.

Groundbreaking and critical, African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy expands on the scope and themes of recent collections to offer the most up-to-date scholarship to students in a range of disciplines, including U.S. and African American history, Africana studies, political science, and American studies.

Notas del autor

Allison Blakely is Professor Emeritus of History at Boston University. Linda Heywood is a professor of African American studies and history at Boston University and author of Contested Power in Angola: 1840s to the Present . Charles Stith is an adjunct professor of international relations and director of the African Presidential Center at Boston University, and the author of Political Religion . Joshua C. Yesnowitz has been a lecturer in American politics and research methods at Boston University and Suffolk University.

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What role have African Americans played in American foreign policy? Has the complicated nature of race in the US affected individual African American foreign policy elites? These questions are addressed in an edited volume that explores the extraordinary careers of Ralph Bunche, Carl Rowan, and Susan Rice, among others. The work of the National Baptist Convention and its missionary work for African nations is explored as are the visits of African American athletes and jazz musicians as part of State Department programs on cultural democracy in Europe and Russia. These chapters illuminate the difficulty of African Americans' balancing the fight for full inclusion in the American polity with the complicated agenda of US foreign policy. This thought-provoking work reveals the continuing complexity of African American foreign policy elites in shaping and executing American foreign policy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduates, all levels; graduate and research collections. --Kevin Anderson, Eastern Illinois University