Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 - Softcover

Plummer, Brenda

 
9780807845752: Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807845752 ISBN 13: 9780807845752
Verlag: University of North Carolina Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

African Americans have a long history of active involvement and interest in international affairs, but their efforts have been largely ignored by scholars of American foreign policy. Gayle Plummer brings a new perspective to the study of twentieth-century American history with her analysis of black Americans' engagement with international issues, from the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 through the wave of African independence movements of the early 1960s.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Brenda Gayle Plummer, professor of history and Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is author of Haiti and the Great Powers and Haiti, the Psychological Moment.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

Brenda Gayle Plummer brings a new perspective to the study of twentieth-century American history with her analysis of black Americans' engagement with international issues, from the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 through the wave of African independence movements of the early 1960s. Plummer first examines how collective definitions of ethnic identity, race, and racism have influenced African American views on foreign affairs. She then probes specific developments in the international arena that galvanized the black community, including the rise of fascism, World War II, the emergence of human rights as a factor in international law, the Cold War, and the American civil rights movement, which had important foreign policy implications. However, she demonstrates that not all African Americans held the same views on particular issues and that a variety of considerations helped shape foreign affairs agendas within the black community just as in American society at large.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807845752
ISBN 13 
9780807845752
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
442
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar