Race and the image of american democracy cold war civil rights. Race and the image of american democracy politics and society in modern america 73 dudziak, mary l. The larger body of work on race and foreign relations is an important aspect of efforts by historians to internationalize the study. Dudziaks brilliant analysis shows that the cold war had a profound impact on the civil rights movement. Cold war civil rights by mary dudziak pdf, ebook read online. Cold war civil rights project muse johns hopkins university. Race and the image of american democracy princeton university press, 2000, and in books and articles by other scholars. Civil rights activists gained tremendous advantage as the government sought to polish its international image. Dudziak princeton university press princeton and oxford. Race and the image of american democracy politics and society in twentieth century america. In june 1998 three white men in jasper, texas, chained a black man, james byrd, to the back of their pickup truck and drove along the back roads, dragging him along.
The history of russian involvement in americas race wars. In what may be the best analysis of how international relations affected any domestic issue, mary dudziak interprets postwar civil rights as a cold. A persuasive if occasionally overstated argument that the cold war played a crucial role in advancing civil rights in the united states. She argues that the cold war helped facilitate key social reforms, including desegregation. It is a major contribution to our understanding of both the civil rights movement and the cold war itself. Dudziak 1 he united states supreme court has given a. Dudziak cold war civil rights similar books books similar to cold war civil rights. But improving the nations reputation did not always require real change.
Read download cold war civil rights pdf pdf download. In her new preface, dudziak discusses the way the cold war figures into civil rights history, and details this books origins, as one question about civil rights could not be answered without broadening her research from domestic to international influences on american history. Cold war civil rights race and the image of american democracy with a new preface by the author mary l. Noting that in a seminal 1944 book gunnar myrdal defined the contradictions between racism and the ideology of democracy as the quintessentially american dilemma, dudziak lawuniv.
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