Mary L. Dudziak
Auteur de Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
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Mary L. Dudziak is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law and Director of the Project on War and Security in Law, Culture and Society at Emory Law School. Her books include Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey and Cold War Civil Rights.
Crédit image: University of Southern California (faculty page)
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- University of California, Berkeley (BA)
Yale University (JD|MA|MPhil|PhD) - Professions
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Dudziak writes, “When nonwhite foreign dignitaries visited the United States and encountered discrimination, it led to serious diplomatic consequences. And as tension between the United States and the Soviet Union increased in the years after the war, the Soviets made effective use of U.S. failings in this area in anti-American propaganda” (pg. 27). She continues, “The best-developed presentation of the government position on race appeared in The Negro in American Life, a USIA pamphlet written in 1950 or 1951. This pamphlet revealed, rather than concealed, the nation’s past failings, and did so for the purpose of presenting American history as a story of redemption…Democracy, not totalitarian forms of government, it argued, provided a context that made reconciliation and redemption possible” (pg. 49). Describing the role of the Red Scare, Dudzia writes, “Senator [Richard B.] Russell [of Georgia] turned the Cold War argument on its head. In a political and cultural climate steeped in anticommunism, arguing that civil rights reform would be a capitulation to communists, who themselves must clearly be pursuing ulterior motives to undermine American society, proved to be a very effective strategy” (pg. 89).
Discussing integration, Dudziak writes, “It was a short step, in the consciousness of 1950s Americans, from international criticisms to Cold War implications. U.S. editorial writers and political figures regularly noted the negative impact Little Rock was thought to have on the nation’s standing in the Cold War. The Soviet Union’s extensive use of Little Rock in anti-American propaganda – often simply republishing facts disseminated by U.S. news sources – reinforced the concern that Little Rock redounded to the benefit of America’s opponents in the battle for the hearts and minds of people around the world” (pg. 121). She continues, “From the perspective of President Eisenhower, the core interests at stake in Little Rock had more to do with federal authority and foreign affairs than with racial equality” (pg. 151). Describing the impact of events on third-world nonaligned nations, Dudziak writes, “Africans were particularly tuned to U.S. racial problems. As a result, State Department officials were greatly troubled by the implications of discrimination for U.S. national security. One concern – a motivating issue since the late 1940s – was how race discrimination in the United States would affect Cold War alignments” (pg. 153). A particular embarrassment was the series of petty injustices visited upon foreign diplomats whose work in the United States took them through the South.… (plus d'informations)