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Assani, Amzat.

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Cultural imagery and exchange programs as sources of US soft power in West Africa: Unfolding US cultural relations with West Africa from 1957--1991.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Cultural imagery and exchange programs as sources of US soft power in West Africa: Unfolding US cultural relations with West Africa from 1957--1991./
作者:	Assani, Amzat.
面頁冊數:	259 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-01, Section: A, page: 0248.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-01A.
標題:	American Studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3435269
ISBN:	9781124337210

Cultural imagery and exchange programs as sources of US soft power in West Africa: Unfolding US cultural relations with West Africa from 1957--1991.
Assani, Amzat.

Cultural imagery and exchange programs as sources of US soft power in West Africa: Unfolding US cultural relations with West Africa from 1957--1991. - 259 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-01, Section: A, page: 0248.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2010.

This dissertation examines U.S. cultural relations with Africa from the independence of Ghana in 1957 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Using primary sources as well as secondary sources, newspapers and unpublished documents, it explores the correlation between the policy of communism containment and the development of U.S. program of cultural relations with African countries throughout the Cold war era. It argues that, educational exchanges, cultural activities, and international visitors programs, conceived and operated by the State Department and the United States Information Agency on one hand, and the program of volunteerism operated by the Peace Corps were all used as sources of U.S. Soft Power in West Africa during the period studied. With their participation in these different programs, many American citizens, African-American diplomats, jazz performers, intellectuals, and artists helped project during the Cold War era the image of the U.S. as a country of freedom and democracy, a land of opportunities for everyone. Through their action they became passive agents, contributing indirectly to the objective of the government to persuade African leaders, intellectuals and other politics of public opinion of the values and benefits of liberal democracy by using the United States as primary reference.

ISBN: 9781124337210Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

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