Black Power, Red Limits: Kwame Nkrumah and American Cold War Responses to Black Empowerment Struggles
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2008-12
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University of Oregon
Zusammenfassung
Scholars of American history have chronicled ways in which federal level
response to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States was influenced by the
ideological and strategic conflict between Western and Soviet Bloc countries. This thesis
explores the hypothesis that the same Cold War dynamics shown to shape domestic
policy toward black liberation were also influential in shaping foreign policy decisions
regarding U.S. relations with recently decolonized African countries. To be more
specific, the United States was under pressure to demonstrate an agenda of freedom and
equality on the world stage, but its tolerance of independent black action was stringently
limited when such action included sympathetic association with "radical" factions. The
case of the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations' relationship with the popular and
highly visible leader Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana during the time of the Congo crisis is
the primary case used in the exploration of this hypothesis.
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ix, 90 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.