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Title: | The Congressional Black Caucus and United States Policy Toward Africa: 1971-1990 |
Author: | Erhagbe, Edward O. |
Year: | 1995 |
Periodical: | Transafrican Journal of History (ISSN 0251-0391) |
Volume: | 24 |
Pages: | 84-96 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Africa United States |
Subjects: | foreign policy African Americans 1970-1979 1980-1989 international relations History, Archaeology Congressional Black Caucus history |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24328655 |
Abstract: | African-American members of the US Congress, through the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), act as a vehicle for the articulation of the interests of the black community. From its inception, the CBC has included African interests in its legislative agenda. Thus, it acts as a pressure group in the formulation of US foreign policy, especially as it affects Africa. This paper examines, among other things, CBC members' historical role in the formulation of US policy towards Africa; their mode of operation; and the major factors that have tended to militate against its efforts, especially when compared with other identifiable interest groups that work to influence US foreign policy. To improve, the CBC has to work for the empowerment of African-Americans in the general matrix of American politics. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |