Holding the Line
Holding the LineGeorge White
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Holding the Line

Holding the Line Race, Racism, and American Foreign Policy Toward Africa, 1953-1961

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The Eisenhower administration's confrontation with Africa demonstrates the significance of race in the creation and execution of American foreign policy. In this new work, historian George White, Jr., explores the ways in which Eisenhower diplomacy, influenced by America's racialized fantasies, fears, and desires, turned the Cold War into a global sanctuary for the rehabilitation of Whiteness.