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Diversifying diplomacy : my journey from Roxbury to Dakar

Title
Diversifying diplomacy : my journey from Roxbury to Dakar / Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas with Jim Robison ; foreword by Allan E. Goodman ; preface by John C. Bersia.
Author
Elam-Thomas, Harriet Lee, 1941-
Publication
  • [Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Robison, Jim, 1952-
  • Goodman, Allan E., 1944-
Description
xviii, 205 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  • "Today, diverse women of all hues represent this country overseas. Some have called this development the "Hillary Effect." But well before our most recent female secretary of state there was Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve in that capacity, and later Condoleezza Rice. Beginning at a more junior post in the Department of State in 1971, there was"the little Elam girl" from Boston. Diversifying Diplomacytells the story ofHarriet Lee Elam-Thomas, a young black woman who beat the odds and challenged the status quo. Inspired by the strong women in her life, shefollowed in the footsteps of the few women who had gone before her in her effort to make the Foreign Service reflect the diverse faces of the United States. The youngest child of parents who left the segregated Old South to raise their family in Massachusetts, Elam-Thomas distinguished herself with a diplomatic career at a time when few colleagues looked like her. Elam-Thomas's memoir is a firsthand account of her decades-long career in the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service, recountingher experiences of making U.S. foreign policy, culture, and values understood abroad. Elam-Thomas served as a United States ambassador to Senegal (2000-2002) and retired with the rank of career minister after forty-two years as a diplomat. Diversifying Diplomacypresents thejourney of this successful woman, who not only found herself confronted by some of the world's heftier problems but also helped ensure that new shepherds of honesty and authenticity would follow in her international footsteps for generations to come."--
  • "The firsthand account of Harriet Elam-Thomas, or "the little Elam girl" from Boston, whose decades-long effort as a woman of color distinguished her as a successful diplomat"--
Series Statement
ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy series
Uniform Title
ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy series.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographies.
  • Biography.
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Foreword / by Allen E. Goodman -- Preface / by John Bersia -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: America's Approach Is Not the Planet's Only Game -- 1. What a Family! -- 2. My Name Is Harriet -- 3. Do You Know How to Type? -- 4. Young, Black, Female, and. ... from the White House -- 5. Harriet, How Is Your Greek? -- 6. The Desk Officer Who Was Never in Her Office -- 7. Well, It's the Truth! -- 8. This Was Our "Aha" Moment -- 9. Off to Dakar -- 10. I Was Ready to Retire ... I Thought -- Epilogue: Coming Full Circle, Cuba Face-to-Face.
Call Number
Sc E 18-857
ISBN
  • 9781612349503
  • 1612349501
  • 9781612349800 (canceled/invalid)
  • 1612349803 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781612349817 (canceled/invalid)
  • 1612349811 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781612349824 (canceled/invalid)
  • 161234982X (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2017026737
OCLC
983419215
Author
Elam-Thomas, Harriet Lee, 1941- author.
Title
Diversifying diplomacy : my journey from Roxbury to Dakar / Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas with Jim Robison ; foreword by Allan E. Goodman ; preface by John C. Bersia.
Publisher
[Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy series
ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy series.
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
ACCOUNT OF LIFE IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE. ELAM-THOMAS WITH JIM ROBISON.
Chronological Term
Since 1989
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Robison, Jim, 1952- author.
Goodman, Allan E., 1944- writer of foreword.
Research Call Number
Sc E 18-857
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