The Fullbright Paradox: The Fulbright Paradox Race and the Road to a New American Internationalism (should be the paywall free link) , published in Foreign Affairs, is far more than the promised retrospective of J. William Fullbright’s career and how it has led to and influenced contemporary events (though it is that).
It also points out the foreign policy decisions of Fulbright and his contemporaries were, in fact, based on an internalized belief in racial hierarchy, in which white supremacy shaped decisions and, indeed, history. As such, non-white countries were in some ways deliberately stymied in achieving global parity on an economic or social level.
A second facet worth noting is the reframing of what is currently called “Critical Race Theory” as a natural evolution in education:
“Now, a new generation of historians and political scientists is taking the problems of American democracy seriously and placing them in the appropriate comparative light. They are redefining the place of racism and antiracism in U.S. history and resurrecting thinkers, from Du Bois to the civil rights pioneer Pauli Murray, who drew explicit connections between national politics and foreign policy. That process has accompanied a broad and necessary rethinking of racial hierarchies in college syllabuses, publishers’ lists, film scripts, art exhibitions, symphony repertoires, and other areas. That American college students can still study diplomacy without Ralph Bunche, anthropology without Zora Neale Hurston, and history without Carter G. Woodson is a sign of how far the desegregation of the imagination has yet to go. Rediscovering Black voices such as these isn’t a matter of ‘political correctness’ or ‘wokeness’—what self-aware person uses such terms?—or even a question of justice, although it might lead in that direction. It is at base about being less dumb.”