{"product_id":"african-americans-in-u-s-foreign-policy-from-the-era-of-frederick-douglass-to-the-age-of-obama-hardback-9780252038877","title":"African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy; From the Era of Frederick Douglass to the Age of Obama (Hardback) 9780252038877","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAfrican Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrom the Era of Frederick Douglass to the Age of Obama\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLinda Heywood (Edited by), Allison Blakely (Edited by), Charles Stith (Edited by), Joshua C. Yesnowitz (Edited by), Walter C Carrington (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252038877\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 February 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 3 black and white photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBookended 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. \u003cp\u003eGroundbreaking and critical, \u003ci\u003eAfrican Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e vii\u003cbr\u003e  Preface: Reflections of a Black Ambassador\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eWalter C. Carrington\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ix\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart I: Early African American Diplomatic Appointments: Contributions and Constraints\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  1 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Blacks in the U.S. Diplomatic and Consular Services, 1869-1924 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAllison Blakely\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 13\u003cbr\u003e  2 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A New Negro Foreign Policy: The Critical Vision of Alain Locke and Ralph Bunche\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eJeffrey C. Stewart\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 30\u003cbr\u003e  3 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Carl Rowan and the Dilemma of Civil Rights, Propaganda, and the Cold War \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael L. Krenn\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 83\u003cbr\u003e  5 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e White Shame\/Black Agency: Race as a Weapon in Post-World War I Diplomacy\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eVery Ingrid Grant\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 109\u003cbr\u003e  6 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Goodwill Ambassadors: African American Athletes and U.S. Cultural Diplomacy, 1947-1968\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eDamion Thomas\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 129\u003cbr\u003e  7 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Paradox of Jazz Diplomacy: Race and Culture in the Cold War \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLisa Davenport\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e African American Representatives in the United Nations: From Ralph Bunche to Susan Rice \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLorenzo Morris\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 177\u003cbr\u003e  9 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Obama, African Americans, and Africans: The Double Vision \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIbrahim Sundiata\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e  Epilogue: The Impact of African Americans on U.S. Foreign Policy \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCharles R. 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