The Cold War and the Color Line is the first comprehensive examination of how the Cold War intersected with the final destruction of global white supremacy. Thomas Borstelmann pays close attention to the two Souths-Southern Africa and the American South-as the primary sites of white authority's last stand.

The Cold War and the Color Line is the first comprehensive examination of how the Cold War intersected with the final destruction of global white supremacy. In so doing, it recasts the history of American race relations in its true international context, one that is relevant for our own time.