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By Jr. White George

The contention among the USA and the Soviet Union intensified as Dwight D. Eisenhower entered the White residence. even though, the burning query for the majority of the world's inhabitants was once now not whether or not they could sign up for the "Free international" or the Soviet bloc, yet whether or not they may in achieving significant self-determination. Nowhere did the reply to that question loom higher than in Africa.

The Eisenhower administration's disagreement with Africa demonstrates the importance of race within the production and execution of yank international coverage. during this new paintings, historian George White, Jr. explores the ways that Eisenhower international relations, inspired through America's racialized fantasies, fears, and needs, became the chilly battle right into a international sanctuary for the rehabilitation of Whiteness. In flip, American statesmen and bureaucrats justified the undermining of democracy and freedom via stuffing the multi-faceted realities of African aspirations and Western privileges into the straitjacket of a bi-polar worldview. utilizing as its origin American relatives with Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, and the Congo, Holding the Line demonstrates the ability of race to warp conception and to critically restrict the parameters and chances of human engagement.

Holding the Line presents a clean viewpoint on Nineteen Fifties period U.S. overseas family members that stay salient in American international relations this day. this can be a publication that may be of curiosity to scholars of yank diplomatic heritage, severe Race and Whiteness reviews, American experiences, and overseas relations.

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