... considers postwar affluence and how it was affected by Cold War fears of communism, the increasing prominence accorded to race in social thought and public discourse during the rise of the civil rights movement in the later 1940s and 1950s, and John Howard Griffin's undercover classic Black Like Me...

...This book examines how the U.S. government used Asian Americans to promote the superiority of U.S. democracy over communism during the early Cold War years from 1946 to 1965. More specifically, it considers how the federal government both secured and infringed upon the rights of Asian Americans...

... racial equality to the advancement of the U.S. Cold War foreign policy of internationalism, as an illustration of America's attempt to contain communism. Focusing on the 1951 Chinese extortion racket and the 1956 Chinese slot racket, it also demonstrates how the government incorporated Chinese loyalty...

... from communism. In contrast, liberal Christians joined liberals throughout America in denouncing Nixon and calling his integrity into question. They were a part of the American movement opposed to all things Nixon, starting with his foreign policy and moving eventually into his role in Watergate...

... of youth sexuality, cross-age sex, and gender transitivity, link martial law to exilic departures and desires and thus implicate the United States not simply as the Cold War supporter of Marcos' efforts to stanch the spread of Communism, but also as the supposed site of freedom from political...

...; the place of Israel in Jewish American politics; the evolution of Democratic Party liberalism in New York City; the importance of third parties in New York politics; and the changing political alignments of New York’s Irish and Jewish communities in the second half of the twentieth century. This chapter...

... York University; photograph by Henry Cordes) This chapter examines the radicalism that characterized New York politics in the first half of the twentieth century. In the years after World War I, zealotry against communism weakened but did not crush political and labor radicalism in America. The early...

... geopolitical power and standing as one of the world's great societies. The nation has pursued these goals while maintaining uneasy relationships with capitalist European countries flanking it in the west; and while the crisis of communism transformed this dynamic, it did not bring it to an end. Twenty years...

... their support to a new generation of politicians who promised to break from the past. In what was largely a referendum on communism, Enver Hoxha lost. But as Berisha consolidated power, the DP and government struggled to run the state. This chapter examines the problems faced by the Berisha administration...

... Central Committee to leave little leeway for Jewish religious life. It suggests that many American Yiddish readers and writers remained loyal to communism and that Yiddish-speaking groups of communist parties continued to cooperate in the framework of the Comintern. Communist parties New Economic Program...

... to only widen the differences within ASEAN. Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN autonomy communism European Union EU Malaysia market economy the Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam World War II financial crisis 1997 Southeast Asia Thaksin Shinawatra ASEAN China Free Trade...

... to the American cultural war about foreign affairs. Christianity Today, conservative Catholic periodicals such as America, and the Southern Baptist Convention continued to support U.S. policy and despised all things communist. These Christian entities portrayed communism...

... not go far enough since they allowed for too many loopholes. Conservatives examined them cautiously, afraid of any compromise with communism. Many others stood somewhere in between, with a fear of the USSR but hope that such diplomatic ties could really bring world peace. Anti communism Arms race...

... Americans Ku Klux Klan Racial discrimination Sam Adams Darcy Ku Klux Klan Communism working class poor farmers Born Samuel Dardeck in the Ukraine, Sam Adams Darcy (1905–2005) was an organizer, orator, and official in the Communist Party for more than twenty years. He served as head of the Young...

... children with the flag of Soviet Russia flying over it. The teacher of the camp was Yetta Stromberg, a nineteen-year-old student at the University of California, whose greatest sin appeared to be teaching children history, and more broadly, her ideals of Communism which espoused, among other things, human...

... is in decline and that everyone seems worse off than when he'd left them, despite the prominence of Communist officials in the government. Khanin himself was not a Communist, though he shared the same socialist ideals as many of his comrades, and was disappointed to see that Communism did not improve...

... and in American society with Communism, bringing together her Red Scare politics with her anti-civil-rights agenda. anti Communism Beavers Louise Civil Rights Movement Democratic Party Gone with the Wind 1939 Hopper Hedda Imitation of Life 1934 Nixon Richard M Republican Party Baskett James Cold War...

... organizations to fight against the stigma of communism and of the foreign. activism Americanization anticommunism Cold War communism dissent U S suppression of Hyun David Kimm Diamond Korean War labor McCarran Act 1950 Kim Lili Korea Korean Americans Murray Alice Yang nationalism World War II...

... the outside world. They opened cafés, companies, and newspapers. Previously banned rock music blared in the streets. This book offers a vivid history of Albania’s transition from communism to democracy. It provides an in-depth look at the Communists’ last Politburo meetings and the first student revolts...