How Far the Promised Land? (eBook)

World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam

Jonathan Rosenberg (Autor)

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2018
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18729-7 (ISBN)

Infos

How Far the Promised Land? explores the relationship between overseas developments and the most important reform movement in modern American history, the struggle for racial justice. Interweaving civil rights history, U.S. foreign relations history, and twentieth-century international history, the book contributes to the emerging effort to reconceptualize the study of America's past by locating it in a global context. In examining the link between international developments and the quest for racial justice, Jonathan Rosenberg argues that civil rights leaders were profoundly interested in the world beyond America and incorporated their understanding of overseas matters into their reform program in order to fortify and legitimize the message they presented to their followers, the nation, and the international community. The book considers how a cosmopolitan group of black and white, male and female race reform leaders purposively deployed World War I and the peace settlement, the decolonization struggles in Africa and Asia, the emergence of communism and fascism, World War II, and the Cold War to help realize their domestic aspirations. Rosenberg sets this complex story against the backdrop of America's growing activism on the world stage, a development that would have significant positive implications for the domestic struggle. Central to the work is the notion that race reform leaders were animated by the idea of "color-conscious internationalism," a distinctive outlook that would affect the trajectory and momentum of the civil rights movement.

Autor

Jonathan Rosenberg is Assistant Professor of History at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • activism • African Americans • An American Dilemma • Angelo Herndon • A. Philip Randolph • arnold rampersad • Axis powers • Carter G. Woodson • Central Powers • Charles S. Johnson • Clayborne Carson • Colonialism • Color line (civil rights issue) • communism • counter-revolutionary • Decolonization • DeWitt Wallace • Emancipation Proclamation • Eric Hobsbawm • erudition • Europe first • Executive Order 8802 • Floyd McKissick • Foreign Policy Association • Fred Shuttlesworth • George Padmore • george schuyler • Herbert Aptheker • Ho Chi Minh • howard university • ICAN • imperialism • James Forman • James S. Allen • James Weldon Johnson • Jawaharlal Nehru • John Haynes Holmes • John Hope Franklin • John Lewis Gaddis • John P. Davis • Lawrence S. Wittner • Lewis Call • Liberalism • Liberation Struggle • Malcolm X • Manifest Destiny • manning marable • March on Washington Movement • Marshall Plan • Massive Resistance • Max Yergan • Medgar Evers • Militarism • Miller's Word • Moorfield Storey • National Affairs • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • National interest • Nationalist Movement • National Negro Congress • National policy • nat turner • Nazism • New Course • New Nation (United States) • New Negro • No taxation without representation • Oppression • Original Position • Orval Faubus • Oswald Garrison Villard • Pacifism • Plessy v. Ferguson • proclamation • progressivism • Proscription • Racism • Radicalism (historical) • Rayford Logan • Reactionary • reconstruction era • Roy Cohn • Roy Wilkins • Satyagraha • Saul K. Padover • Self-determination • Sovereignty • St. Clair Drake • Voice of America • W. E. B. Du Bois • WEVD • What Happened • William L. Patterson • William Monroe Trotter • Wilsonianism • Works Progress Administration • world affairs • World Help • World revolution
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18729-0 / 0691187290
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18729-7 / 9780691187297