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Canada and the United States



Carol Anderson. Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. x, 302. Cloth $65.00, paper $22.00.

Until about fifteen years ago, very few scholars examined connections between the field of U.S. foreign relations, on the one hand, and the fields of African-American history and American race relations, on the other. This separation reflected an enduring division between historians who focus on domestic U.S. developments and those who work on U.S. international ties. The growing influence of social history in the 1960s and 1970s—and its hegemony within U.S. history since—encouraged foreign policy specialists to establish their own professional organization, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), and their own research journal, Diplomatic History. 1
      Scholarly attention to the intersection between race and foreign relations received a boost in the late 1980s from two seminal publications, which embodied two different emphases. Paul Gordon Lauren's Power and Prejudice: The Politics and Diplomacy of Racial Discrimination (1986) unfolded the realm of international diplomacy and how race had factored into it, while, conversely, Mary L. Dudziak's "Desegregation as a Cold War Imperative" (Stanford Law Review 41 [1988]) demonstrated the critical role that foreign policy considerations played in the struggle for race reform within the United States. Then the dam began to break, and a whole host of new research has rushed downstream into publication since the early 1990s, further illuminating the fascinating and complicated relationships between the color line at home and American relationships abroad with a mostly nonwhite world. . . .

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