Window on Freedom

Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988

Brenda Gayle Plummer

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN: 9780807854280, 9780807827611
• eBook ISBN: 9780807863084
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Social Sciences

The civil rights movement in the United States drew strength from supporters of human rights worldwide. Once U.S. policy makers — influenced by international pressure, the courage of ordinary American citizens, and a desire for global leadership — had signed such documents as the United Nations charter, domestic calls for change could be based squarely on the moral authority of doctrines the United States endorsed abroad.

This is one of the many fascinating links between racial politics and international affairs explored in Window on Freedom. Broad in chronological scope and topical diversity, the ten original essays presented here demonstrate how the roots of U.S. foreign policy have been embedded in social, economic, and cultural factors of domestic as well as foreign origin. They argue persuasively that the campaign to realize full civil rights for racial and ethnic minorities in America is best understood in the context of competitive international relations.

The contributors are Carol Anderson, Donald R. Culverson, Mary L. Dudziak, Cary Fraser, Gerald Horne, Michael Krenn, Paul Gordon Lauren, Thomas Noer, Lorena Oropeza, and Brenda Gayle Plummer.

INDEX

• Aboriginal peoples, 35
• Acheson, Dean, 55–57, 154
• Adoption, U.S. practices regarding, 78, 79–81, 83
• Affirmative action, 59
• Afghanistan, 8
• Africa Information Service, 228
• African Americans: at turn of twentieth century, 49, 50;
  • as soldiers, 49, 67–86;
  • as soldiers’ wives, 78–79;
  • as voters, 163;
  • and foreign affairs, 164, 173, 230;
  • as dockworkers, 229
• African American Scholars Council, 228
• African Heritage Studies Association, 229
• African Jazz Artist Society and Studies (AJASS), 233
• African Liberation Support Committee (ALSC), 229, 231
• African states, response to U.S. civil rights reform, 189–91
• African studies, 224, 225
• Afro-Asian conference. See Bandung Conference
• Alexander, Ruth, 144
• Algerian Revolution, 55
• Alianza Federal de Mercedes Reales, 208, 209
• All-African Peoples’ Conference, 32
• American G.I. Forum, 205, 207, 209, 210
• American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa (ANLCA), 173
• American West, history of, 45–47
• Angola, 145, 228, 229, 231
• Annan, William E., 165
• Anti-Americanism, 59
• Antiapartheid activism, 1, 13, 28–29, 221–35;
  • and divestment, 226, 231, 235;
  • and Polaroid workers, 228;
  • and action against Rhodesian chrome, 229;
  • and entertainment industry, 233, 234
• Anticommunism, 107, 128–29;
  • and colonialism, 54;
  • in Japan, 57–58;
  • and segregationists, 141, 145, 147–52, 155, 157
• Arab League, 121, 123
• Aryan Nation, 158
• Asociación Nacional México-Americana (ANMA), 206
• Atlanta Constitution, 98
• Aztlán, 12, 201, 213, 216
• Baghdad Pact, 116, 126, 128
• Baker, Josephine, 32
• Baker, Newton D., 6
• Baltimore Afro-American, 83, 166, 174
• Bandung Conference, 10, 12, 32, 115–37
• Barnett, Ross, 152
• Bean, Louis, 158
• Beaumont...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• A Feeling for Books
• Copyright Page
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• Seen from the Outside
• Race from Power
• Brown Babies
• Bleached Souls and Red Negroes
• An American Dilemma
• Segregationists and the World
• The Unwelcome Mat
• Birmingham, Addis Ababa, and the Image of America
• Antiwar Aztlán
• From Cold War to Global Interdependence
• SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX