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Window on Freedom by Brenda Gayle Plummer
Race, Civil Rights and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
Demonstrates how US foreign policy has been embedded in social, economic and cultural factors of domestic and foreign origin. It argues that the campaign to realize full civil rights for racial and ethnic minorities in the US is best understood in the context of competitive international relations.The civil rights movement in the United States drew strength from supporters of human rights worldwide. Once U.S. policy makers - influenced by international pressure, the courage of ordinary American citizens, and a desire for global leadership - had signed such documents as the United Nations charter, domestic calls for change could be based squarely on the moral authority of doctrines the United States endorsed abroad. This is one of the many fascinating links between racial politics and international affairs explored in Window on Freedom. Broad in chronological scope and topical diversity, the ten original essays presented here demonstrate how the roots of U.S. foreign policy have been embedded in social, economic, and cultural factors of domestic as well as foreign origin. They argue persuasively that the campaign to realize full civil rights for racial and ethnic minorities in America is best understood in the context of competitive international relations. |
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| Author(s) : Brenda Gayle Plummer | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0807827614 | ISBN-13 : 9780807827611 |
| RRP : £28.95 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 28/02/2003
Publisher : The University of North Carolina Press
Page Length : 272mm
Page Size : 235mm