Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Reflections of a Black Ambassador -- Introduction -- Part I. Early African American Diplomatic Appointments: Contributions and Constraints -- 1 Blacks in the U.S. Diplomatic and Consular Services, 1869-1924 -- 2 A New Negro Foreign Policy: The Critical Vision of Alain Locke and Ralph Bunche -- 3 Carl Rowan and the Dilemma of Civil Rights, Propaganda, and the Cold War -- Part II African American Participation in Foreign Affairs through Civil Society: Religious, Milita -- 4 Reconstruction's Revival: The Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention and the -- 5 White Shame/Black Agency: Race as a Weapon in Post-World War I Diplomacy -- 6 Goodwill Ambassadors: African American Athletes and U.S. Cultural Diplomacy, 1947-1968 -- 7 The Paradox of Jazz Diplomacy: Race and Culture in the Cold War -- Part III. The Advent of the Age of Obama: African Americans and the Making of American Foreign -- 8 African American Representatives in the United Nations: From Ralph Bunche to Susan Rice -- 9 Obama, African Americans, and Africans: The Double Vision -- Epilogue: The Impact of African Americans on U.S. Foreign Policy -- Contributors -- Index.