Globetrotting: African American Athletes and Cold War Politics

by Damion L. Thomas

Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union deplored the treatment of African Americans by the U.S. government as proof of hypocrisy in the American promises of freedom and equality. This probing history examines government attempts to manipulate international perceptions of U.S. race relations during the Cold War by sending African American athletes abroad on goodwill tours and in international competitions as cultural ambassadors and visible symbols...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252037170
• ISBN13: 9780252037177
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"