African Americans in Global Affairs

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.

MICHAEL L. CLEMONS is Associate Professor of Political Science at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Prologue	p. xi
Racial Justice in Foreign Affairs	p. 1
African American Foreign Affairs Participation: Nature and Dynamics	p. 31
Conceptualizing the Foreign Affairs Participation of African Americans: Strategies and Effects of the Congressional Black Caucus and TransAfrica	p. 33
From Anticolonialism to Anti-Apartheid: African American Political Organizations and African Liberation, 1957-93	p. 65
Rise to Institutional Global Power Positions	p. 91
Congress and Africa's Constituency: The Development of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and the Intersection of African American and Business Interests	p. 93
The Making of African American Foreign Policymakers: Senate Confirmation Hearings on Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice	p. 118
Colin L. Powell and the Iraq War: Bureaucratic Actor and Foreign Policy Dissenter	p. 144
Condoleezza Rice and Madeleine Albright: The Changing Face of High-Profile U.S. Foreign Policy Leadership	p. 169
The Rise and Fall of Black Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy	p. 192
Transnational Activism and Globalization	p. 223
The Looming Quest for Global Reparations: African Americans and the World Conference against Racism	p. 225
The Emergence of a Legislative Caucus of Afro-Descendant Legislators in the Americas: Context, Progress, and Agenda Setting	p. 249
African Americans, Transnational Contention, and Cross-National Politics in the United States and Venezuela	p. 283
The Assault of the Monkey King on the Hosts of Heaven: The Black Freedom Struggle and China-The New Center of Revolution	p. 313
Epilogue: Toward Foreign Policy Justice in the Post-Bush Era	p. 345
About the Contributors	p. 365
Index	p. 369
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