{"product_id":"african-americans-in-u-s-foreign-policy-9780252038877","title":"African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes essays that use close readings of speeches, letters, historical archives, diaries, and memoirs of policymakers and newly available FBI files to confront much-neglected questions related to race and foreign relations in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Several of this collection's chapters and topics will certainly spur new and further research in African American and US diplomatic history. \u003ci\u003eAfrican Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e will particularly interest those concerned with the history and challenges faced by African Americans involved in the making and execution of US foreign policy.\"--\u003ci\u003eH-Net Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This thought-provoking work reveals the continuing complexity of African American foreign policy elites in shaping and executing American foreign policy. Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sheds light on understudied but timely phenomena at the intersection of race and U.S. foreign relations and does so in new and exciting ways. Expands the chronological and thematic scopes of existing works, making it truly original. I am convinced that this book will intervene in many scholarly conversations for years to come by offering something truly unique.\"--George White Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eHolding the Line: Race, Racism, and American Foreign Policy toward Africa, 1953–1961\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The essays presented in \u003ci\u003eAfrican Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e raise important questions and provide insightful answers to them through rigorous archival and interpretive methods. The end result is a book that significantly advances our understanding of African Americans in the U.S. foreign policy-making arena. This outstanding book should be read widely by scholars of history, African American Studies, and political science.\"--Alvin B. Tillery Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eBetween Homeland and Motherland: Africa, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Black Leadership in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   vii\u003cbr\u003e Preface: Reflections of a Black Ambassador\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalter C. Carrington\u003c\/i\u003e   ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction   1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Early African American Diplomatic Appointments: Contributions and Constraints\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1   Blacks in the U.S. Diplomatic and Consular Services, 1869-1924   \u003ci\u003eAllison Blakely\u003c\/i\u003e   13\u003cbr\u003e 2   A New Negro Foreign Policy: The Critical Vision of Alain Locke and Ralph Bunche\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeffrey C. Stewart\u003c\/i\u003e   30\u003cbr\u003e 3   Carl Rowan and the Dilemma of Civil Rights, Propaganda, and the Cold War   \u003ci\u003eMichael L. Krenn\u003c\/i\u003e   58\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: African American Participation in Foreign Affairs through Civil Society: Religious, Military, and Cultural Institutions in Foreign Policy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4   Reconstructions' Revival: The Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention and the Roots of Black Populist Diplomacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrandi Hughes\u003c\/i\u003e   83\u003cbr\u003e 5   White Shame\/Black Agency: Race as a Weapon in Post-World War I Diplomacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVery Ingrid Grant\u003c\/i\u003e   109\u003cbr\u003e 6   Goodwill Ambassadors: African American Athletes and U.S. Cultural Diplomacy, 1947-1968\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDamion Thomas\u003c\/i\u003e   129\u003cbr\u003e 7   The Paradox of Jazz Diplomacy: Race and Culture in the Cold War   \u003ci\u003eLisa Davenport\u003c\/i\u003e   140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Advent of the Age of Obama: African Americans and the Making of American Foreign Policy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8   African American Representatives in the United Nations: From Ralph Bunche to Susan Rice   \u003ci\u003eLorenzo Morris\u003c\/i\u003e   177\u003cbr\u003e 9   Obama, African Americans, and Africans: The Double Vision   \u003ci\u003eIbrahim Sundiata\u003c\/i\u003e   200\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Impact of African Americans on U.S. Foreign Policy   \u003ci\u003eCharles R. Stith\u003c\/i\u003e   213\u003cbr\u003e Contributors   225\u003cbr\u003e Index   231","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400432394583,"sku":"9780252038877","price":81.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252038877.jpg?v=1730470668","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-americans-in-u-s-foreign-policy-9780252038877","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}