African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy : From the Era of Frederick Douglass to the Age of Obama

Heywood, Linda (EDT)/ Blakely, Allison (EDT)/ Stith, Charles (EDT)

University of Illinois Press（2015/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780252038877
• DDC分類 327.73

Full Description

Bookended by remarks from African American diplomats Walter C. Carrington and Charles Stith, the essays in this volume use close readings of speeches, letters, historical archives, diaries, memoirs of policymakers, and newly available FBI files to confront much-neglected questions related to race and foreign relations in the United States. Why, for instance, did African Americans profess loyalty and support for the diplomatic initiatives of a nation that undermined their social, political, and economic well-being through racist policies and cultural practices? Other contributions explore African Americans' history in the diplomatic and consular services and the influential roles of cultural ambassadors like Joe Louis and Louis Armstrong. The volume concludes with an analysis of the effects on race and foreign policy in the administration of Barack Obama. Groundbreaking and critical, African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy expands on the scope and themes of recent collections to offer the most up-to-date scholarship to students in a range of disciplines, including U.S. and African American history, Africana studies, political science, and American studies.

Contents

Acknowledgments   vii
Preface: Reflections of a Black Ambassador
Walter C. Carrington   ix
Introduction   1
Part I: Early African American Diplomatic Appointments: Contributions and Constraints
1   Blacks in the U.S. Diplomatic and Consular Services, 1869-1924   Allison Blakely   13
2   A New Negro Foreign Policy: The Critical Vision of Alain Locke and Ralph Bunche
Jeffrey C. Stewart   30
3   Carl Rowan and the Dilemma of Civil Rights, Propaganda, and the Cold War   Michael L. Krenn   58

Part II: African American Participation in Foreign Affairs through Civil Society: Religious, Military, and Cultural Institutions in Foreign Policy
4   Reconstructions' Revival: The Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention and the Roots of Black Populist Diplomacy
Brandi Hughes   83
5   White Shame/Black Agency: Race as a Weapon in Post-World War I Diplomacy
Very Ingrid Grant   109
6   Goodwill Ambassadors: African American Athletes and U.S. Cultural Diplomacy, 1947-1968
Damion Thomas   129
7   The Paradox of Jazz Diplomacy: Race and Culture in the Cold War   Lisa Davenport   140

Part III: The Advent of the Age of Obama: African Americans and the Making of American Foreign Policy
8   African American Representatives in the United Nations: From Ralph Bunche to Susan Rice   Lorenzo Morris   177
9   Obama, African Americans, and Africans: The Double Vision   Ibrahim Sundiata   200
Epilogue: The Impact of African Americans on U.S. Foreign Policy   Charles R. Stith   213
Contributors   225
Index   231