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African Americans in Global Affairs: Contemporary Perspectives

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Michael L. Clemons
2010
Published by: Northeastern University Press
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The repression historically faced by African Americans has had an important effect on the nature of the group's participation in foreign affairs. This book offers a much-needed and long-overdue survey of the field, setting the stage for further exploration and analysis.

Chapters discuss the Congressional Black Caucus and TransAfrica Forum; African American political organizations and Africa; Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice; the evaporation of strong black voices in events such as those in Rwanda and Darfur; and self-critical Pan Africanism. A prologue by Michael L. Clemons and introductory chapter by Ronald W. Walters provide new ways to conceptualize these international perspectives, while Clemons's epilogue speculates on the opportunities and challenges offered by the presidency of Barack Obama.

Table of Contents

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Front Cover

Title Page, Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

pp. ix-x

Prologue

pp. xi-xv

1: Racial Justice in Foreign Affairs

pp. 1-30

Part I: African American Foreign Affairs Participation: Nature and Dynamics

2: Conceptualizing the Foreign Affairs Participation of African Americans: Strategies and Effects of the Congressional Black Caucus and TransAfrica

pp. 33-64

3: From Anticolonialism to Anti-Apartheid: African American Political Organizations and African Liberation, 1957–93

pp. 65-89

Part II: Rise to Institutional Global Power Positions

4: Congress and Africa’s Constituency: Th e Development of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and the Intersection of African American and Business Interests

pp. 93-117

5: The Making of African American Foreign Policymakers: Senate Confirmation Hearings on Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice

pp. 118-143

6: Colin L. Powell and the Iraq War: Bureaucratic Actor and Foreign Policy Dissenter

pp. 144-168

7: Condoleezza Rice and Madeleine Albright: The Changing Face of High-Profile U.S. Foreign Policy Leadership

pp. 169-191

8: The Rise and Fall of Black Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy

pp. 192-221

Part III: Transnational Activism and Globalization

9: The Looming Quest for Global Reparations: African Americans and the World Conference against Racism

pp. 225-248

10: The Emergence of a Legislative Caucus of Afro-Descendant Legislators in the Americas: Context, Progress, and Agenda Setting

pp. 249-282

11: African Americans, Transnational Contention, and Cross-National Politics in the United States and Venezuela

pp. 283-312

12: The Assault of the Monkey King on the Hosts of Heaven: The Black Freedom Struggle and China—The New Center of Revolution

pp. 313-344

Epilogue: Toward Foreign Policy Justice in the Post-Bush Era

pp. 345-363

About the Contributors

pp. 365-368

Index

pp. 369-385

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