| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jeff Woods. Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948–1968. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 282. Cloth $59.95, paper $22.95.

"Americans of the 1950s and 1960s regarded Communism as an even greater evil than southern racism" (pp. 9–10). Here Jeff Woods takes us to the heart of a conundrum that helped to shape and misshape major contours of American life after World War II. Not all Americans viewed communism as a larger threat to the United States than racism, of course. Few Americans of color shared such an opinion. But most white citizens did, on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. This perspective placed the United States at odds with the majority of the world's nations, newly emerging from European colonial rule and all too aware of the devastating impacts of racial hierarchies, and it complicated U.S. relations with much of what became known as the Third World. At home, this anticommunist priority decisively narrowed the range of mainstream ideas and policies, while at the same time creating pressure for the leader of the "free world" to eliminate the most egregious absence of freedom in the United States: racial segregation and discrimination.

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