2024-03-28T17:47:49Zhttps://keep.lib.asu.edu/oai/requestoai:keep.lib.asu.edu:node-1546972021-08-30T18:22:40Zoai_pmh:all154697
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.38759
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2016
iv, 63 pages
Masters Thesis
Academic theses
Text
United States--Foreign relations--Iran.
Iran--Foreign relations--United States.
Iran--History--Coup d'état, 1953.
Iran
Iran--Politics and government--1941-1979.
Political Science
history
Middle Eastern history
Coup
Eisenhower
Iran
Mossadegh
Roosevelt
United States
Racism--Political aspects.
Racism
eng
Anderson, Kira C
Forrest, M. David
Murphy Erfani, Julie
Behl, Natasha
Arizona State University
Partial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2016
Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-63)
Field of study: Social Justice and Human Rights
When the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency recently declassified documents relating to the 1953 Coup in Iran, it was discovered that American involvement was much deeper than previously known. In fact, the CIA had orchestrated the coup against democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh. This action was sold to the United States public as being essential to democracy, which seems contradictory to its actual purpose. U.S. political leaders justified the coup by linking it to what Charles Mills calls “racial liberalism,” a longstanding ideological tradition in America that elevates the white citizen to a place of power and protection while making the racial noncitizens “others” in the political system. Political leaders in the United States relied on bribing the American media to portray the Shah as the white citizen and Mossadegh as a racial other, the white citizen was restored to power and the racial other was overthrown.
Whitewashing the Shah: racial liberalism and U.S. foreign policy during the 1953 Coup of Iran