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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: 0-691-09513-2 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Causes and Effects
Comment: Upon first consideration one would think that the reciprocal influences of the Cold War and American civil rights activity would be self-evident. Perhaps, but Dudziak's book is full of surprises and details how galling the "American Dilemma" was to U.S. foreign policy-makers and various presidents and how each responded to the concerns of African, Asian, American, and European countries regarding the United States civil rights struggle over several decades. Why was civil rights legislation important to American foreign policy? How was Eisenhower's response to school desegregation in Little Rock influenced by foreign perceptions? How did the international attention to civil rights activity affect John Kennedy's domestic policies? Why was the State Department so concerned about Asian and African criticisms of the United States' record on civil rights? How was the Civil Rights Act of 1965 viewed by the international community? How did the views of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X affect United States foreign policy efforts? Was the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to an American activist also an international signal that worried a president and the State Department? These questions and many more are answered by Dudziak.
Dudziak deserves recognition and commendations for clearly demonstrating that the United States civil rights movement had a global as well as a national impact on America's foreign policy efforts and placed the United States squarely between the demands of a persecuted domestic minority and the scrutiny of the nations to which it declared itself the leader of human rights, liberty, and freedom in contrast to the totalitarian regimes of communist countries.
This book is well worth reading and an important addition to the growing number of books on the history of race relations that was not, and is not,taught in school. Kudos to Dudziak for an important job well done.
Rating: 5
Summary: Eye Opening and Important -- A Great Read!
Comment: Mary Dudziak revisits a familiar chapter in American history--the civil rights movement--but provides readers with a completely new perspective on it.
We know about the work that was being done in the streets. But now Dudziak helps us see the movement through the eyes of America's cold war policymakers. For them, civil rights was a foreign policy problem, and Dudziak helps us see how this explains many of the movements successes and (maybe more important) many of its defeats.
Essential reading for everyone interested in American history, civil rights, constitutional law (yes, even Brown v. Board of Education must be seen in light of this analysis), and foreign policy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent!
Comment: This book is fabulous. Clear and articulate, it reads like a story and explores an aspect of the civil rights movement most authors and historians have neglected. It is meticulously researched and filled with information from sources ranging from presidential telephone conversations to news wires to official publications. The civil rights movement cannot be fully understood without reflecting upon the information contained in this book.
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Title: Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena by Thomas Borstelmann ISBN: 0674012380 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by Lizabeth Cohen ISBN: 0375707379 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Many Are the Crimes by Ellen Schrecker ISBN: 0691048703 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 09 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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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: The Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas J. Sugrue ISBN: 0691058881 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 13 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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