African Americans in Global Affairs: Contemporary Perspectives

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Prologue xi 1 Racial Justice in Foreign Affairs 1 ronald w. walters PART I African American Foreign Affairs Participation: Nature and Dynamics 31 2 Conceptualizing the Foreign Affairs Participation of African Americans: Strategies and Effects of the Congressional Black Caucus and TransAfrica 33 michael l. clemons 3 From Anticolonialism to Anti-Apartheid: African American Political Organizations and African Liberation, 1957–93 65 ronald williams ii PART II Rise to Institutional Global Power Positions 91 4 Congress and Africa’s Constituency: The Development of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and the Intersection of African American and Business Interests 93 william g. jones 5 The Making of African American Foreign Policymakers: Senate Confirmation Hearings on Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice 118 josephine a. v. allen, alvin tillery, jr., and hanes walton, jr. 6 Colin L. Powell and the Iraq War: Bureaucratic Actor and Foreign Policy Dissenter 144 michael l. clemons 7 Condoleezza Rice and Madeleine Albright: The Changing Face of High-Profile U.S. Foreign Policy Leadership 169 Michael L. Clemons and Supad Ghose 8 The Rise and Fall of Black Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy 192 Charles P. Henry PART III Transnational Activism and Globalization 223 9 The Looming Quest for Global Reparations: African Americans and the World Conference against Racism 225 Ife Williams 10 The Emergence of a Legislative Caucus of Afro-Descendant Legislators in the Americas: Context, Progress, and Agenda Setting 249 Minion K. C. Morrison 11 African Americans, Transnational Contention, and Cross-National Politics in the United States and Venezuela 283 Sekou M. Franklin 12 The Assault of the Monkey King on the Hosts of Heaven: The Black Freedom Struggle and China—The New Center of Revolution 313 Robeson Taj P. Frazier Epilogue: Toward Foreign Policy Justice in the Post-Bush Era 345 Michael L. Clemons About the Contributors 365 Index 369 ...