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Window on Freedom

2014-10-27T02:53:30Z

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{{Infobox book
| name = Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
| author = Plummer, Brenda Gayle (editor)
| publisher = University of North Carolina Press
| pub_date = 2003-02-28
| pages = 272
| isbn = 080785428X
| image = [[file:WindowOnFreedom.jpg|200px|alt=cover]]
}}

''Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988,'' edited by Brenda Gayle Plummer, does a good job of placing the United States's Civil Rights Movement into international context. Because this book is an anthology, its essays cover a wide range of topics and it is incredibly difficult to coherently summarize. However, for this review I will summarize some of the essays to give the reader a sampling of what he or she will read in the book. Due to it being a collection of essays, the book puts forth numerous arguments, but one of the most common threads running through it is that “racism undermined US global leadership and strained its relations with countries that had a stake in achieving global racial equality” (7).

The first essay, “Seen from the Outside: The International Perspective on America’s Dilemma” by [http://www.cas.umt.edu/casweb/faculty/FacultyDetails.cfm?id=1514 Paul Gordon Lauren], was the most relevant to my research on how the Civil Rights Movement was reported on in the international press. Lauren argues that outsiders with no personal stake in certain goings-on can often help explain and clarify things about ourselves: “they can apply a certain objectivity, distance, broader perspective, freshness, and honesty that we are not always able or willing to produce on our own. They can often see through the rationalizations, excuses, self-willed naïveté, or myths that we create about ourselves” (21). He begins by discussing how some of the very first foreign visitors to America, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustav de Beaumont, saw the evident irony in American society— the rhetoric of equality and democracy but the reality of the oppression suffered by the “Negro and the Indian” (21). Lauren’s article then goes on to describe the Swedish social scientist Gunnar Myrdal’s report ''An American Dilemma: the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy'', the funds for Myrdal’s research and its publication were provided by the Carnegie Corporation. The report once again draws attention to the “stark contrast between the glorious ideals of liberty and equality on one hand, and blatant racial prejudice and discrimination on the other” (23). Lauren also gives examples of many international news outlets that wrote about American civil rights struggles after World War II ended. Of course, no criticism of the United States’s race relations was as strong and sharp as that from the Soviet Union, who used statistics about lynchings and disenfranchisement to prove to the world how flawed its capitalistic rival was during the Cold War. Lauren’s essay, while quite comprehensive and interesting, seems to be a little too broad in its focus, and jumps around too much between subjects, never really settling on one. Along with books and press coverage, he also discusses how international diplomats from non-“white” countries were treated poorly when visiting the US, foreign leaders (especially those from Africa) who “express[ed] solidarity with the US struggle through symbolic gestures,” and also the reaction of Americans to this foreign press coverage (34). I think that if he settled more on outsiders’ views as opposed to insiders’ reactions to those views, the essay would have been more successful in arguing its point.

Another piece that struck me was "Brown Babies: Race, Gender, and Policy after World War II," by the editor, [http://afroamericanstudies.wisc.edu/people/plummer.html Brenda Gayle Plummer, a historian of African American History and US Foreign Relations at the University of Wisconsin]. This essay mostly caught my interest because it was about a phenomenon that has truly been swept under the rug in the United States — the plight of “babies born of European Women and African American soldiers during the World War II era” (67). While interracial sex was taboo at the time, and in some places, illegal, the fact that “brown babies” existed during the War era proved that it was happening. Unfortunately, due to many obstacles in race relations and the power relations between Americans and Europeans during the war, many of the babies produced of these relationships were orphaned or given up for adoption, where it was unlikely they would be adopted anyway, because of their skin color. Also, Plummer argues, the government created a catch-22 for black GIs, when they disapproved of interracial sex but also did not allow black women to be housed with the white women they hired to give the soldiers “company.” She also argues that many German women, desperate during the very lean times of the war, used American GIs, including blacks, as meal tickets, and that when the German economy began rebounding, the German women were much less friendly to the black GIs. Nevertheless, “some 1,500 brown babies were born” in Germany during the War, but even if the fathers and mothers wanted to marry, they were unlikely to be allowed by the top brass of the US Military to do so (68-69). In her essay, Plummer also discusses the reaction to these babies in the Black Press of the time, as well as the complicated legalities and illegalities surrounding these babies and their parents’ relationships with regards to American, US Military, and local laws. Also, she mentions the growing acceptance of black American couples to adopt these “mulattoes” from overseas, with help from press outlets such as the ‘’Baltimore Afro-American,’’ and the fate of many of the mixed-race children that ended up staying in Germany after the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany. Although she does not explicitly come out and say it, Plummer hints that these children were better off in Konrad Adenauer’s West Germany than in the home of their fathers, where many of their fathers still did not have the right to vote.

Overall, ''Window on Freedom'' is an interesting book covering a very broad range of topics relating to international relations and the US Civil Rights Movement. Dr. Plummer’s work is ambitious and broad, but I believe each of the essays is a good jumping-off point into further research about each topic. The essays are well-written and, for the most part, easy to understand, although I did find a few of them a little confusing, especially when trying to explain legal concepts and specific laws.

Book review by Lindsay Resnick, Fall 2014.

Window on Freedom

2014-10-27T02:41:43Z

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{{Infobox book
| name = Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
| author = Plummer, Brenda Gayle (editor)
| publisher = University of North Carolina Press
| pub_date = 2003-02-28
| pages = 272
| isbn = 080785428X
| image = [[file:WindowOnFreedom.jpg|200px|alt=cover]]
}}

''Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988,'' edited by Brenda Gayle Plummer, does a good job of placing the United States's Civil Rights Movement into international context. Because this book is an anthology, its essays cover a wide range of topics and it is incredibly difficult to coherently summarize. However, for this review I will summarize some of the essays to give the reader a sampling of what he or she will read in the book. Due to it being a collection of essays, the book puts forth numerous arguments, but one of the most common threads running through it is that “racism undermined US global leadership and strained its relations with countries that had a stake in achieving global racial equality” (7).

The first essay, “Seen from the Outside: The International Perspective on America’s Dilemma” by Paul Gordon Lauren, was the most relevant to my research on how the Civil Rights Movement was reported on in the international press. Lauren argues that outsiders with no personal stake in certain goings-on can often help explain and clarify things about ourselves: “they can apply a certain objectivity, distance, broader perspective, freshness, and honesty that we are not always able or willing to produce on our own. They can often see through the rationalizations, excuses, self-willed naïveté, or myths that we create about ourselves” (21). He begins by discussing how some of the very first foreign visitors to America, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustav de Beaumont, saw the evident irony in American society— the rhetoric of equality and democracy but the reality of the oppression suffered by the “Negro and the Indian” (21). Lauren’s article then goes on to describe the Swedish social scientist Gunnar Myrdal’s report ‘’An American Dilemma: the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy,’’ the funds for Myrdal’s research and publication were provided by the Carnegie Corporation. The report once again draws attention to the “stark contrast between the glorious ideals of liberty and equality on one hand, and blatant racial prejudice and discrimination on the other” (23). Lauren also gives examples of many international news outlets that wrote about American civil rights struggles after World War II ended. Of course, no criticism of the United States’s race relations was as strong and sharp as that from the Soviet Union, who used statistics about lynchings and disenfranchisement to prove to the world how flawed its capitalistic rival was during the Cold War. Lauren’s essay, while quite comprehensive and interesting, seems to be a little too broad in its focus, and jumps around too much between subjects, never really settling on one. Along with books and press coverage, he also discusses how international diplomats from non-“white” countries were treated poorly when visiting the US, foreign leaders (especially those from Africa) who “express[ed] solidarity with the US struggle through symbolic gestures,” and also the reaction of Americans to this foreign press coverage (34). I think that if he settled more on outsiders’ views as opposed to insiders’ reactions to those views, the essay would have been more successful in arguing its point.

Another piece that struck me was ‘’Brown Babies: Race, Gender, and Policy after World War II,’’ by the editor, Brenda Gayle Plummer, a historian of African American History and US Foreign Relations at the University of Wisconsin. This essay mostly caught my interest because it was about a phenomenon that has truly been swept under the rug in the United States — the plight of “babies born of European Women and African American soldiers during the World War II era” (67). While interracial sex was taboo at the time, and in some places, illegal, the fact that “brown babies” existed during the War era proved that it was happening. Unfortunately, due to many obstacles in race relations and the power relations between Americans and Europeans during the war, many of the babies produced of these relationships were orphaned or given up for adoption, where it was unlikely they would be adopted anyway, because of their skin color. Also, Plummer argues, the government created a catch-22 for black GIs, when they disapproved of interracial sex but also did not allow black women to be housed with the white women they hired to give the soldiers “company.” She also argues that many German women, desperate during the very lean times of the war, used American GIs, including blacks, as meal tickets, and that when the German economy began rebounding, the German women were much less friendly to the black GIs. Nevertheless, “some 1,500 brown babies were born” in Germany during the War, but even if the fathers and mothers wanted to marry, they were unlikely to be allowed by the top brass of the US Military to do so (68-69). In her essay, Plummer also discusses the reaction to these babies in the Black Press of the time, as well as the complicated legalities and illegalities surrounding these babies and their parents’ relationships with regards to American, US Military, and local laws. Also, she mentions the growing acceptance of black American couples to adopt these “mulattoes” from overseas, with help from press outlets such as the ‘’Baltimore Afro-American,’’ and the fate of many of the mixed-race children that ended up staying in Germany after the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany. Although she does not explicitly come out and say it, Plummer hints that these children were better off in Konrad Adenauer’s West Germany than in the home of their fathers, where many of their fathers still did not have the right to vote.

Overall, ‘’Window on Freedom’’ is an interesting book covering a very broad range of topics relating to international relations and the US Civil Rights Movement. Dr. Plummer’s work is ambitious and broad, but I believe each of the essays is a good jumping-off point into further research about each topic. The essays are well-written and, for the most part, easy to understand, although I did find a few of them a little confusing, especially when trying to explain legal concepts and specific laws.

Book review by Lindsay Resnick, Fall 2014.

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| name = Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
| editor = Plummer, Brenda Gayle
| publisher = University of North Carolina Press
| pub_date = 2003-02-28
| pages = 272
| isbn = 080785428X
| image = [[file:WindowOnFreedom.jpg|200px|alt=cover]]
}}

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Lindsay Resnick<br/>
HIST 8030<br/>
Fall 2014

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Lindsay Resnick
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Fall 2014

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==Book Summaries==
* Donna Alvah. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/women-and-children-first-the-importance-of-gender-and-military-families-in-the-cold-war-era/ Unofficial Ambassadors: American Military Families Overseas and the Cold War, 1946-1965] (2007).
* Alex Cummings. [[Here's How to Make a New Page: The Revenge, 1955-1957|Here's How to Make a New Page]] (2013).
* Luis Alvarez. [[The Power of the Zoot|The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II]] (2008).
* Karen Anderson. [[Wartime Women|Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women During World War II]] (1981).
* Eric Avila. [[Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight|Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles]] (2004).
* Beth Bailey. [[America’s Army|America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force]] (2009).
* Beth Bailey & David Farber. [[The First Strange Place|The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii]] (1992).
* Beth Bailey. [[From Front Porch to Back Seat|From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America]] (1989).
* Mark Brilliant. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/californication-race-ethnicity-and-unity-in-twentieth-century-california/ Californication: Race, Ethnicity, and Unity in Twentieth Century California] (2012).
* Amy Bridges. [[Morning Glories]] (1999).
* Laura Briggs. [[Reproducing Empire|Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico]] (2002).
* Alan Brinkley. [[Voices of Protest|Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression]] (1983).
* Charlotte Brooks. [[Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends|Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California]] (2009).
* Robert Caro. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/dog-days-classics-robert-caros-controversial-portrait-of-robert-moses-and-new-york/ The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York](1974)
* Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/dog-days-classics-political-boss-and-midwestern-pharaoh-richard-j-daleys-chicago-legacy/ American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for the Nation and Chicago] (2001)
* Lizabeth Cohen. [[A Consumers’ Republic|A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America]] (2003).
* Lizabeth Cohen. [[Making a New Deal|Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939]] (2008).
* Nancy F. Cott. [[Public Vows|Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation]] (2002).
* Pete Daniel, [[Lost Revolutions|Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s]] (2000)
* Mike Davis. [[City of Quartz|City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles]] (2006).
* Mike Davis & Michael Sprinker. [[Magical Urbanism|Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US Big City]] (2001).
* Michael J. Dear. [[The Postmodern Urban Condition]] (2001).
* Robert C. Donnelly. [[Dark Rose]] (2011).
* Steven Erie. [[Globalizing L.A.|Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development]] (2004).
* Steven P. Erie. [[Beyond Chinatown|Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California]] (2006).
* Elizabeth Ewen. [[Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars]] (1985).
* Barbara Ferman. [[Challenging the Growth Machine|Challenging the Growth Machine: Neighborhood Politics in Chicago and Pittsburgh]] (1996).
* John M. Findlay. [[Magic Lands|Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940]] (1993).
* Steven Gregory. [[Black Corona|Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community]] (1999).
* Jason Hackworth. [[The Neoliberal City|The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism]] (2006).
* William Ivy Hair. [[Carnival of Fury|Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900]] (2008).
* Tona J. Hangen. [[Redeeming the Dial|Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America]] (2013).
* Chester W. Hartman. [[Yerba Buena|Yerba Buena: land grab and community resistance in San Francisco,]] (1974).
* Georgina Hickey. [[Hope and Danger in the New South City|Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940]] (2005).
* Richard Hofstadter. [[The American Political Tradition|The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it]] (1989).
* Daniel Horowitz. [[Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”|Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism]] (2000).
* Daniel Martinez HoSang. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/erasing-race-whiteness-california-and-the-colorblind-bind/ Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California](2010)
* Jonathan Hughes (Editor)& Simon Sadler (Editor).[[Non-Plan|Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism]] (2000).
* Daniel Hurewitz. [[Bohemian Los Angeles|Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics]] (2007).
* Marilynn S. Johnson. [[The Second Gold Rush|The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II]] (1994).
* Tony Judt. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/neoliberalisms-license-to-ill/ Ill Fares the Land] (2011).
* Larry D. Kramer. [[The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review]] (2004).
* Joel Kotkin. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/americas-ace-in-the-hole-is-of-course-its-awesomeness/ The Next Hundred Million:America in 2050] (2010)
* Kevin M. Kruse. [[White Flight|White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism]] (2007).
* Matthew D. Lassiter. [[The Silent Majority|The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South]] (2007).
* William R. Leach. [[Land of Desire|Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture]] (1994).
* Michael F. Logan. [[Fighting Sprawl and City Hall|Fighting Sprawl and City Hall: Resistance to Urban Growth in the Southwest]] (1995).
* Roger W. Lotchin. [[Fortress California, 1910-1961|Fortress California, 1910-1961: From Warfare to Welfare]] (2002).
* Lisa Lowe. [[Immigrant Acts|Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics]] (1996).
* Robert S. Lynd & Helen Merrell Lynd. [[Middletown|Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture]] (1959).
* Catherine Lutz. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/3187/ Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century] (2001).
* Nancy MacLean. [[Freedom Is Not Enough|Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace]] (2008).
* Isaac Martin. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/stalking-the-tax-man-the-pervasive-influence-of-the-property-tax-revolt/ The Permanent Tax Revolt: How Property Tax Transformed America] (2008).
* Douglas Massey & Nancy Denton. [[American Apartheid|American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass]] (1993).
* Elaine Tyler May. [[America and The Pill|America and The Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation]] (2010).
* Carol Lynn McKibben. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/3187/ Racial Beachhead: Diversity and Democracy in a Military Town] (2012).
* Lisa McGirr. [[Suburban Warriors|Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right]] (2002).
* James Miller. [[Flowers in the Dustbin|Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977]] (2000).
* Glen M. Mimura. [[Ghostlife of the Third Cinema|Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video]] (2009).
* John Hull Mollenkopf. [[The Contested City]] (1983).
* Maggi M. Morehouse. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/double-victory-from-wwii-to-the-avf-african-americans-and-the-u-s-military/ Fighting in the Jim Crow Army: Black Man and Women Remember World War II] (2000).
* Edward P. Morgan. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/a-mediating-mess-how-american-post-wwii-media-undermined-democracy/ What Really Happened to the Sixties: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy] (2011)
* Charles Moskos Jr. and John Sibley Butler. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/double-victory-from-wwii-to-the-avf-african-americans-and-the-u-s-military/ All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way] (1996).
* Andrew H. Myers. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/3187/ Black, White, and Olive Drab: Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina and the Civil Rights Movement] (2006).
* Armando Navarro. [[The Cristal Experiment|The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control]] (1998).
* Becky M. Nicolaides. [[My Blue Heaven|My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965]] (2002).
* Margaret Pugh O’Mara. [[Cities of Knowledge|Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley]] (2004).
* Gilbert Osofsky. [[Harlem|Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930]] (1996).
* Rick Perlstein. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/essence-precedes-existence-the-problem-of-identity-politics-in-hurewitzs-bohemian-la/ Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America](2009).
* Rebecca Jo Plant. [[Mom|Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America]] (2012).
* Brenda Gayle Plummer. [[Window on Freedom|Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988]] (2003).
* Doris Marie Provine. [[Unequal Under Law|Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs]] (2007).
* Daniel T. Rodgers. [[Contested Truths|Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence]] (1998).
* David Roediger. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/dog-days-classics-the-wages-of-whiteness-and-the-white-people-who-love-them/ The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class] (1991).
* Adam Rome. [[The Bulldozer in the Countryside|The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism]] (2001).
* Richard Ronald. [[The Ideology of Home Ownership|The Ideology of Home Ownership: Homeowner Societies and the Role of Housing]] (2008).
* Peter Henry Rossi & Robert A. Dentler. [[The Politics of Urban Renewal|The Politics of Urban Renewal: The Chicago Findings]] (1981).
* Mike Royko. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/dog-days-classics-political-boss-and-midwestern-pharaoh-richard-j-daleys-chicago-legacy/ Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago] (1971)
* Roger Sanjek. [[The Future of Us All|The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City]] (1998).
* Bruce Schulman & Bruce J. Schulman. [[The Seventies|The Seventies: The Great Shift In American Culture, Society, And Politics]] (2002).
* Joel Schwartz. [[The New York Approach|The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and Redevelopment of the Inner City]] (1993).
*Gary S. Selby [[Martin Luther King and the Rhetoric of Freedom: The Exodus Narrative in America's Struggle for Civil Rights]] (2008)
* Josh Sides. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/making-san-francisco-josh-sides-erotic-city/ Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco] (2009).
* Nayan Shah. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/intimate-citizenship-the-influence-of-marriage-sexuality-and-transience-on-national-membership/Stranger Intimacy:Contesting Race, Sexuality and Law in the American Northwest] (2012).
* David J. Silbey. [[A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902]] (2007).
* Rickie Solinger. [[Beggars and Choosers|Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States]] (2002).
* Allan H. Spear. [[Black Chicago|Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920]] (1969).
* Todd Swanstrom. [[The Crisis of Growth Politics|The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich, and the Challenge of Urban Populism]] (1988).
* Ronald Takaki. [[Hiroshima|Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb]] (1996).
* Penny M. Von Eschen. [[Satchmo Blows Up The World|Satchmo Blows Up The World: Jazz Ambassadors Play The Cold War]] (2004).
* Robert Wiebe. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/dog-day-classics-robert-h-wiebe-and-the-search-for-order/ The Search for Order, 1877 - 1920] (1967).
* Andrew Wiese. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/getting-to-the-mountaintop-the-suburban-dreams-of-african-americans/ Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century] (2004)
* Rhonda Y. Williams. [[The Politics of Public Housing|The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles Against Urban Inequality]] (2004).
* William Appleman Williams. [[The Tragedy of American Diplomacy]] (2009).
* Gwendolyn Wright. [[Building the Dream|Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America]] (1983).
*Zimmerman, Andrew. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/the-ties-that-bind-the-transnational-trick-of-immobilizing-the-mobile/ Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South] (2010).

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{{Infobox book
| name = Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
| author = Plummer, Brenda Gayle
| publisher = University of North Carolina Press
| pub_date = 2003-02-28
| pages = 272
| isbn = 080785428X
| image = [[file:WindowOnFreedom.jpg|200px|alt=cover]]
}}

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==Book Summaries==
* Donna Alvah. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/women-and-children-first-the-importance-of-gender-and-military-families-in-the-cold-war-era/ Unofficial Ambassadors: American Military Families Overseas and the Cold War, 1946-1965] (2007).
* Alex Cummings. [[Here's How to Make a New Page: The Revenge, 1955-1957|Here's How to Make a New Page]] (2013).
* Luis Alvarez. [[The Power of the Zoot|The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II]] (2008).
* Karen Anderson. [[Wartime Women|Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women During World War II]] (1981).
* Eric Avila. [[Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight|Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles]] (2004).
* Beth Bailey. [[America’s Army|America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force]] (2009).
* Beth Bailey & David Farber. [[The First Strange Place|The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii]] (1992).
* Beth Bailey. [[From Front Porch to Back Seat|From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America]] (1989).
* Mark Brilliant. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/californication-race-ethnicity-and-unity-in-twentieth-century-california/ Californication: Race, Ethnicity, and Unity in Twentieth Century California] (2012).
* Amy Bridges. [[Morning Glories]] (1999).
* Laura Briggs. [[Reproducing Empire|Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico]] (2002).
* Alan Brinkley. [[Voices of Protest|Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression]] (1983).
* Charlotte Brooks. [[Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends|Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California]] (2009).
* Robert Caro. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/dog-days-classics-robert-caros-controversial-portrait-of-robert-moses-and-new-york/ The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York](1974)
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