Cold War anticommunism reframed racial justice as a strictly domestic matter

Evidence

Walter White made a choice. He criticized Robeson’s efforts, accusing him of confusing “the public mind,” and tried to quash any further attempt to link black freedom in the United States to global struggles (a view that defined much of the politics of the previous decades—including his own and that of the NAACP). The United States had to assert its moral leadership in the world, and that required, White claimed, ending racial discrimination at home. The country’s oldest civil rights organization now believed that racial justice was a domestic matter—one that meant aligning our practices with national ideals and embracing anti-communism. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 450

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• XREF: Connects to the reader’s stated goal of understanding the value gap and why Glaude sees mainstream black politics (‘black liberal compact’) as the trap preceding electoral loyalty to Democrats. — connects to: Cold War and civil-rights pressure widened judicial definitions of whiteness — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 173