> 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