African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy

Acknowledgments   vii
Preface: Reflections of a Black Ambassador
Walter C. Carrington   ix
Introduction   1
Part I: Early African American Diplomatic Appointments: Contributions and Constraints
1   Blacks in the U.S. Diplomatic and Consular Services, 1869-1924   Allison Blakely   13
2   A New Negro Foreign Policy: The Critical Vision of Alain Locke and Ralph Bunche
Jeffrey C. Stewart   30
3   Carl Rowan and the Dilemma of Civil Rights, Propaganda, and the Cold War   Michael L. Krenn   58

Part II: African American Participation in Foreign Affairs through Civil Society: Religious, Military, and Cultural Institutions in Foreign Policy
4   Reconstructions' Revival: The Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention and the Roots of Black Populist Diplomacy
Brandi Hughes   83
5   White Shame/Black Agency: Race as a Weapon in Post-World War I Diplomacy
Very Ingrid Grant   109
6   Goodwill Ambassadors: African American Athletes and U.S. Cultural Diplomacy, 1947-1968
Damion Thomas   129
7   The Paradox of Jazz Diplomacy: Race and Culture in the Cold War   Lisa Davenport   140

Part III: The Advent of the Age of Obama: African Americans and the Making of American Foreign Policy
8   African American Representatives in the United Nations: From Ralph Bunche to Susan Rice   Lorenzo Morris   177
9   Obama, African Americans, and Africans: The Double Vision   Ibrahim Sundiata   200
Epilogue: The Impact of African Americans on U.S. Foreign Policy   Charles R. Stith   213
Contributors   225
Index   231