1st Edition

Race and US Foreign Policy The African-American Foreign Affairs Network

By Mark Ledwidge Copyright 2012
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

African-Americans' analysis of, and interest in, foreign affairs represents a rich and dynamic legacy, and this work provides a cutting edge insight into this neglected aspect of US foreign affairs. In addition to extending the parameters of US foreign policy literature to include race and ethnicity, the book documents case-specific analyses of the evolutionary development of the African... Read more

1. Introduction  2. The Forging of the African-American Foreign Affairs Community  3. A Case Study of the Italo-Ethiopian War  4. From Isolationism to Globalism: African-Americans’ Response to U.S. Entry into the Second World War  5. African-Americans and the Formation of the United Nations Organisation  6. Human Rights, Racial Reconstruction and the Cold War  7. Malcolm and Martin and the Shadow of US Foreign Policy  8. Conclusion

Biography

Dr Mark Ledwidge is an Honourary Fellow within the Department Of Politics at the University of Manchester School of Social Sciences, and Senior lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University within the American Studies Department. In addition he co-edited Race, African-Americans and US Foreign Policy in the New Directions Series published by Routledge in 2009 and is on the Organising Committee of an AHRC-funded Research Network on the presidency of Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States.