Cold War photographic diplomacy: the US Information Agency and Africa

Abstract

"Examines the United States Information Agency's program of photographic diplomacy with Africa, locating photography at the intersection of African decolonization, racial conflict in the United States, and the cultural Cold War"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Photography, race, and the Cold War imagination -- Photography, public diplomacy, and the Africa Program at the United States Information Agency -- "Toward a better world" : Africa, the United Nations, and the photographic diplomacy of decolonization -- "A pleasant mixture of Negro and White" : photographing civil rights as democracy in action -- "Africans at the wax museum" : photography and international friendship -- "Don't touch those windows" : United States Information Service exhibits in Africa.