African Americans in US Foreign Policy Book event
“African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy:From the Era of Frederick Douglass to the Age of Obama”
Book launch event is scheduled for:
Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 5:30 -7:30 PM.
The event will take place at The African Presidential Center at
Boston University located at 141 Bay State Road Boston, MA 02215.
Edited by Allison Blakely, Linda Heywood, Charles Stith, and Joshua C. Yesnowitz, this 264 page publication comes in two editions – paper & cloth – and can be purchased here. The warehouse at University of Illinois Press (UIP) has already started shipping orders. This book is based upon the conference held at BU in fall 2010.
George White Jr., author of Holding the Line: Race, Racism, and American Foreign Policy toward Africa, 1953–1961, describes the book as one that “sheds light on understudied but timely phenomena at the intersection of race and U.S. foreign relations and does so in new and exciting ways. Expands the chronological and thematic scopes of existing works, making it truly original. I am convinced that this book will intervene in many scholarly conversations for years to come by offering something truly unique.”
Space is limited. Please RSVP to APARCADM@bu.edu or 617-353-5452 by April 10, 2015.