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

    Linda Heywood (Edited by), Allison Blakely (Edited by), Charles Stith (Edited by), Joshua C. Yesnowitz (Edited by), Walter C Carrington (Contributions by)

    9780252038877

    Hardback, published 10 February 2015

    264 pages, 3 black and white photographs
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.54 kg

    "Several of this collection's chapters and topics will certainly spur new and further research in African American and US diplomatic history. African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy will particularly interest those concerned with the history and challenges faced by African Americans involved in the making and execution of US foreign policy."--H-Net Review

    "This thought-provoking work reveals the continuing complexity of African American foreign policy elites in shaping and executing American foreign policy. Highly recommended."--Choice

    "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 Holding the Line: Race, Racism, and American Foreign Policy toward Africa, 1953–1961

    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.

    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
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