A review by adubie
Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena (Revised) by Thomas Borstelmann

4.0

This is an amazing book and very unique for what it is. Not many historians have decided to analyze the color line in regards to the global sphere in the Cold War. Borstelmann brilliantly coins the theory of the East vs. West vs. the North vs. South Cold War. Essentially, he discusses how there were two different Cold Wars (even though American historians have typically only focused on the E vs. W one); one regarding the economic system struggle and one regarding anti-colonialism efforts throughout the world. This book is so insightful, I cannot fully express how eye-opening this is!