HIST 4399: Race, American Power, and the Cold War

-- "Examines the Brown versus Board of Education as Cold War case. Reason for the U.S. government's participation in the cases leading up to Brown versus Board of Education; Connections between Brown and the Cold War; International impact of Brown."
-- Dudziak, Mary. "Brown as a Cold War Case." Journal of American History 91, no. 1 (June 2004): 32-42.

-- "...the impact of the Cold War on domestic United States race politics, and the process through which the Cold War lessened resistance to civil rights movement demands."
-- John David, Skrentny. "The Effect of the Cold War on African-American Civil Rights: America and the World Audience, 1945-1968." Theory And Society no. 2 (1998): 237.

-- "During the period of 1962 to 1965, the "race narrative" that the United States presented to the world in the context of the status of African-Americans in American society, underwent a change."
-- Friesel, Ofra. "Changing the American Race Narrative, 1962-1965: Transparency as a Guiding Rule in American Cold War Diplomacy." Journal of Social History 49, no. 1 (Fall 2015): 168-193.

-- "...reforms were partly driven by the perception that communist agents were using American discrimination and prejudice as a propaganda tool."
-- Watras, Joseph. "The Influence of the Cold War on the Racial Desegregation of American Schools.” American Educational History Journal 40, no. 1/2 (March 2013): 111.

-- "...emphasize the race relations of the time, noting that some conservatives resisted the developing human rights regime because they saw it as an effort by the federal government to extend its authority to address racial segregation and discrimination in the South."
-- Bradley, Curtis A. "The United States and Human Rights Treaties: Race Relations, the Cold War, and Constitutionalism." Chinese Journal of International Law 9, no. 2 (2010): 321-344.

-- "In 1949, Jackie Robinson appeared before the House Un- American Activities Committee..."
-- Briley, Ron. "A Cold War State of Mind." Black Ball: A Journal of the Negro Leagues 8, (March 2015): 5.

-- "Far from becoming 'the left wing of McCarthyism,' the NAACP desperately tried to keep the cause of black civil rights on the agenda, acting within constraints that defy all political and moral certainties."
-- Berg, Manfred. "Black Civil Rights and Liberal Anticommunism: The NAACP in the Early Cold War." Journal of American History 94, no. 1 (June 2007): 75-96.

-- "She attributes the silence and ambiguity of the black press on this issue to the repressive climate of the cold war."
-- Beeching, Barbara J. "Paul Robeson and the Black Press: The 1950 Passport Controversy." Journal of African American History 87, (Summer 2002): 339-354.

-- "...the authors look back at the African perspective on U.S. race relations in the 1960s through the lens of Jeune Afrique, a major source of news..."
Sissoko, Moussa, and Rosemary Traore.
-- "Jeune Afrique 1961-1971: U.S. Race Relations." Journal of Pan African Studies no. 6 (2010): 253.

-- "...in U.S. policy toward Africa during the early decades of the Cold War... It is suggested that the Ethiopian government used American racial sensitivities to its advantage..."
-- Kissi, Edward. "Paradoxes of American Development Diplomacy in the Early Cold War Period." Past & Present 215, no. 1 (May 2012): 269.

-- "...examines the relationship between segregationist organisations, publications and individuals in the United States and their pro-apartheid counterparts in southern Africa."
-- Hyman, Zoe Laura. "American Segregationist Ideology and White Southern Africa, 1948-1975." (2012). [Doctoral dissertation]

-- "The racial identities and politics of white Americans and white South Africans continued to shape their mutual relationship in the 1960s despite nearly universal pressure for drastic action against apartheid."
-- Grubbs, Larry. "‘Workshop of a Continent’: American Representations of Whiteness and Modernity in 1960s South Africa." Diplomatic History 32, no. 3 (June 2008): 405-439.

-- "The article discusses the ways in which American exceptionalism and the Cold War has influenced the international human rights law in the U.S. Topics discussed include...Brown v. Board of Education case..."
-- Gonzalez, Carmen G. "Environmental Racism, American Exceptionalism, and Cold War Human Rights." Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 26, no. 2 (Summer 2017): 281.

-- "This article examines the foreign policy choices that the NAACP made between 1941 and 1955...and the Cold War pressures on black America..."
-- Janken, Kenneth R. "From Colonial Liberation to Cold War Liberalism: Walter White, the NAACP, and Foreign Affairs, 1941-1955." Ethnic & Racial Studies 21, no. 6 (November 1998): 1074.

-- "Topics include...the scholarship on cultural diplomacy and Cold War racial politics..."
-- Cohn, Deborah. "‘In Between Propaganda and Escapism’: William Faulkner as Cold War Cultural Ambassador." Diplomatic History 40, no. 3 (June 2016): 392-420.

-- "The Dave Brubeck Quartet's 1958 tour on behalf of the U.S. State Department, part of the grand Cold War project of propagating American-style democracy... The narrative also raises issues of race and race relations in the context of the Cold War..."
-- Crist, Stephen A. "Jazz as Democracy? Dave Brubeck and Cold War Politics." The Journal of Musicology no. 2 (2009): 133.

-- "...investigates the historical effort made by the United States to feature jazz as an important element of its cultural propaganda mission."
-- Devlin, Paul. "Jazz Autobiography and the Cold War." Popular Music & Society 38, no. 2 (May 2015): 140.

-- "The Cold War, the great power rivalry that evolved between the United States and the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War II, riveted international attention on U.S. segregation practices."
-- Historical essay, part of the "Black Americans in Congress" exhibit, which also includes historical data, artifacts, maps, and more. (History, Art, and Archives: United States House of Representatives)