Black and Red: Black Liberation, the Cold War, and the Horne Thesis

An essay is presented on the scholarship of African American historian Gerald Horne and his thesis that white supremacy and anticommunism were the major forces behind Cold War politics and culture in the U.S. and their implications for people of African descent around the world. It examines Horne's argument that Jim Crow segregation in the U.S. was the major flaw in the U.S. government's propaganda campaigns to discourage the expansion of Communism in foreign nations.