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Title: Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena by Thomas Borstelmann ISBN: 0-674-01238-0 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Cold War and Race Relations out of their Vacuums
Comment: In The Cold War and the Color Line, Borstelmann evaluates how US domestic and international race relations shaped the Cold War and how the Cold war shaped the domestic and international race relations. From my studies, and I imagine the studies of the majority of average Americans, the civil rights movement, de-colonization, and the Cold War happened in individual vacuums - separate from each other, only linked by common abstract dates. Borstelmann shows these happenings are all highly connected - at times acting as catalysts for another. "There was no greater weakness for the United States in waging the Cold War than inequality and discrimination," Borstelmann asserts. The United States had to confront racial segregation and discrimination within its own borders as well as regimes around the world to develop a multiracial global coalition against Soviet Communism. The US had to inspire the newly de-colonized non-white nations to sway towards the "free world." But how was the US to inspire a world, the majority non-white when Jim Crow was still firmly implanted in American society? Borstelmann follows the developments of these issues through the Presidencies that were tempered by the Cold War. I found the book a pleasant surprise. The book went beyond what I expected - being the race situations during the Cold War. Borstelmann took his work beyond that to a living political environment - domestic and international as one - where de-colonization, the Cold war environment, and the Civil Rights movement were taken out of their individual vacuums and thrown into a perspective that understands the complexities of that no so long ago reality. I am positive that anyone interested in race relations will embrace this book. Also I believe for a complete perspective of the Cold War or for any interested in the momentous events that transpired in the 20th century, this well researched book will make an excellent read.
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Title: Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America) by Mary Dudziak ISBN: 0691095132 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May ISBN: 0465030556 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Seeing Red: Federal Campaigns Against Black Militancy, 1919-1925 (Blacks in the Diaspora) by Theodore, Jr. Kornweibel ISBN: 0253213541 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945 by Douglas Little ISBN: 0807855391 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 by Brenda Gayle Plummer ISBN: 0807845752 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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