[lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts (smashing windows)

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 10:57:53 PDT 2005


On 7/12/05, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> You could argue - and many have - that competition with the USSR for
> the affections of the Third World made desegregation a major priority
> for the US ruling class in the 1950s and early 1960s. The USSR was
> created by a distinctly non-anarchist revolution.
>
> Doug

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

Harvard University Press (January 10, 2001)
>From Library Journal
Borstelmann (history, Cornell Univ.; Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle) 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: Race and Image of American Democracy (LJ 11/15/00), he dissects the history of U.S. domestic race relations and foreign relations over the past half-century. Like Dudziak, he contends that continuing racial injustice in the United States was not in America's best interest during this era. The Communists competed with Americans for the friendship of the new nonwhite nations in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia during the Cold War, when America's commitment to freedom abroad conflicted with the absence of freedom for people of color at home. Interestingly, both Borstelmann and Dudziak approach the Civil Rights Movement as international history rather than just American history. 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 for academic and large public libraries. Edward G. McCormack, Univ. of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Lib., Long Beach http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/6924.html Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy

Mary L. Dudziak

Paper | 2002 | $22.95 / £14.95 | ISBN: 0-691-09513-2

-- Michael Pugliese



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