Race, ethnicity, and the Cold War: a global perspective

The racial front in the global Cold War white American woman is raped by a black Panamanian laborer in 1946 in the Panama Canal Zone, and the aftermath affects labor relations in the Western hemisphere for the next two decades. Numerous nations use the African continent to exercise their colonial muscle and postwar power, only to encounter the financial and military burdens that will exhaust and alienate their own citizenry half a world away. As Race, Ethnicity, and the Cold War reveals, during this dangerous era there were no longer any "isolated incidents." Like the butterfly flapping its wings and changing the weather on the other side of the globe, an instance of racial or ethnic hostility had ripple effects across a Cold War world of brinksmanship between bitter national rivals and ideological opponents.

pt. 1. Race and the International System -- Token Diplomacy : The United States, Race, and the Cold War / Michael L. Krenn -- A Wind of Change? White Redoubt and the Postcolonial Moment, 1960-1963 / Ryan Irwin -- pt. 2. Race, Ethnicity, and Decolonization -- Race, Labor, and Security in the Panama Canal Zone : The 1946 Greaves Rape Case, Local 713, and the Isthmian Cold War Crackdown / Michael Donoghue -- Race, Identity, and Diplomacy in the Papua Decolonization Struggle, 1949-1962 / David Webster -- For a Better Guinea! Winning Hearts and Minds in Portuguese Guinea / Luis Nuno Rodrigues -- pt. 3. Race and the Interplay between Domestic and International Politics -- Testing the Limits of Soviet Internationalism : African Students in the Soviet Union / Maxim Matusevich -- Crimes against Humanity in the Congo : Nazi Legacies and the German Cold War in Africa / Katrina Hagen -- Race and the Cuban Revolution : The Impact of Cuba's Intervention in Angola / Henley Adams -- pt. 4. Ethnicity and the Interplay between Domestic and International Politics -- Ethnic Nationalism in the Cold War Context : The Cyprus Issue in the Greek and Greek American Public Debate, 1954-1989 / Zinovia Lialio…