This book examines the United States’ relations with Zimbabwe from the 1950s to the late 1990s and offers a new interpretation of the US role in facilitating the settlement that brought peace and independence in Zimbabwe in 1980. By revealing the increasing importance of race relations in U.S. foreign policy from the 1960s to the 1980s, DeRoche fills the wide gap in the written history of US relations with Southern Africa. He includes extensive discussion about the influence of African Americans on US foreign policy from A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, and Whitney Young in the 1950s and 1960s to Charles Diggs, Andrew Young, Randall Robinson, and Ronald Dellums in the 1970s and 1980s. By clearly illuminating the influence of the Civil Rights Movement on foreign relations, this compelling book also details the influence US policy had on Zimbabwe and on the ending of apartheid in neighboring South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Andrew DeRoche teaches at Front Range Community College near Denver, Colorado.
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This review is from: Black, White, and Chrome: The United States and Zimbabwe, 1953 to 1998 (Paperback)
Employing an exhaustive amount of first-rate materials and interviews into his research, Andrew DeRoche, an up and coming scholar of diplomatic history, has provided a splendid account of the complexities - setbacks, victories, racism, pain, pleasure and other elements that were a part of the relationship between the United Staes and Rhodesia(eventually Zimbabwe) from the Eisenhower years to the latter years of the Clinton Administration. DeRoche uses outstanding research to provide his arguments. His analysis (often cutting edge) of the more than 4 decade relationship (45 years to be precise) is nothing short of splendid. The book was enormously informative and it was a pleasure to read. I would reccomend it for anyone who is intersted in groundbreaking work in diplomatic history.
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Zimbabwe, a small country in southern Africa, was known as Southern Rhodesia until 1980. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chrome imports, confidential telegram, internal settlement, chrome ore, sanctions bill, multiracial democracy, untitled folder, strategic minerals, mandatory sanctions, tar baby, white regimes, liberation forces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, New York, State Department, White House, Byrd Amendment, Cold War, Decimal File, Carter Administration, Ian Smith, Johnson Administration, Northern Rhodesia, Great Britain, Martin Luther King, United Nations, Andrew Young, Eisenhower Administration, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Nixon Administration, African Americans, Soviet Union, Kenneth Kaunda, Union Carbide New!
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Zimbabwe, a small country in southern Africa, was known as Southern Rhodesia until 1980. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chrome imports, confidential telegram, internal settlement, chrome ore, sanctions bill, multiracial democracy, untitled folder, strategic minerals, mandatory sanctions, tar baby, white regimes, liberation forces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, New York, State Department, White House, Byrd Amendment, Cold War, Decimal File, Carter Administration, Ian Smith, Johnson Administration, Northern Rhodesia, Great Britain, Martin Luther King, United Nations, Andrew Young, Eisenhower Administration, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Nixon Administration, African Americans, Soviet Union, Kenneth Kaunda, Union Carbide New!
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