Reframing Black Internationalism and Civil Rights during the Cold War

John J. MUNRO; Ian ROCKSBOROUGH-SMİTH

Makale detayları

Reframing Black Internationalism and Civil Rights during the Cold War

Yazarlar:

John J. MUNRO | Ian ROCKSBOROUGH-SMİTH

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2009 Issue 29, pp.63-78

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2009

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734641

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606

Özet:

 

Consider the following clash of interpretations. In his recent biography of  Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican-born vice president of the National Maritime  Union who like many other trade unionists with Communist Party affiliations,  was expelled from the Congress of Industrial Organizations  CIO  during the  early cold war. Historian Gerald Horne argues that cold war anticommunism  had a decidedly deleterious impact on the prospects for substantive Black  freedom in the United States. Horne posits that “the trade union movement  in the nation was deprived of its most class-conscious proletarians when the  NMU was downsized. African Americans, likewise, were deprived of jobs that  had sustained them since the era of slavery. For blacks, the gains brought by  the civil rights movement were bitter-sweet indeed, as they gained the right  to eat in restaurants just as their means to pay the bill deteriorated”  Red Seas  288 .1   Historian Jonathan Rosenberg presents a rather contrasting depiction of  cold war civil rights. For him, “the contention that, on the whole, America’s  conflict with the Soviet Union had a baneful impact on the civil rights struggle  is difficult to sustain. What race reform leaders had been seeking for some  five decades—the abolition of legally sanctioned segregation in the military,  education, employment, public accommodations, and voting—came to pass  during the cold war”  232 .

Makale detayları

Reframing Black Internationalism and Civil Rights during the Cold War

Yazarlar: John J. MUNRO | Ian ROCKSBOROUGH-SMİTH

Yayıncı: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2009 Issue 29, pp.63-78

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/2009

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000734641

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-6606

Sayı

Yazarlar:

John J. MUNRO | Ian ROCKSBOROUGH-SMİTH

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2009 Issue 29, pp.63-78

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2009

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734641

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606