International politics and civil rights policies in the United States, 1941-1960 / Azza Salama Layton.
Despite the impressive volume of literature on the civil rights movement and US race policies, the connection between American foreign policy during World War II and the postwar years and America's race policy remains largely unexplored. Focusing on this gap, Professor Layton's book shows...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Summary: | Despite the impressive volume of literature on the civil rights movement and US race policies, the connection between American foreign policy during World War II and the postwar years and America's race policy remains largely unexplored. Focusing on this gap, Professor Layton's book shows that the revolutionary changes in world politics in the wake of WWII created new opportunities and pressure points for reforming US race policies. The Holocaust, the dismantling of colonial empires, the Cold War, and the establishment of the United Nations had a major impact in creating the Executive and Judicial branch of the Federal government shifts from a seventy year old hands-off policy to the advocacy of civil rights reform. This book further reveals how civil rights leaders utilized foreign policy issues and Cold War politics to press for domestic policy reforms in the United States. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 217 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-207) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511808777 0511808771 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511808777 |