Fog of war : the Second World War and the civil rights movement /

It is well known that World War II gave rise to human rights rhetoric, discredited a racist regime abroad, and provided new opportunities for African Americans to fight, work, and demand equality at home. It would be all too easy to assume that the war was a key stepping stone to the modern civil ri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kruse, Kevin Michael, 1972-, Tuck, Stephen G. N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Temas:
1900-1999
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > African Americans.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
War and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Noirs américains.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Guerre et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
African Americans
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans > Social conditions
Civil rights movements
Race relations
Social aspects
Social conditions
War and society
United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1933-1945.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
United States
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the Second World War and the civil rights movement / Kevin M. Kruse and Stephen Tuck
  • Freedom to want : the federal government and politicized consumption in World War II / James T. Sparrow
  • Confronting the roadblock : Congress, civil rights and World War II / Julian E. Zelizer
  • Segregation and the city : white supremacy in Alabama in the mid-twentieth century / J. Mills Thornton III
  • Movement building during the World War II era : the NAACP's legal insurgency in the South / Patricia Sullivan
  • Hillburn, Hattiesburg, and Hitler : wartime activists think globally and act locally / Thomas Sugrue
  • You can sing and punch but you can't be a soldier or a man : African American struggles for a new place in popular culture / Stephen Tuck
  • A war for states rights : the white supremacist vision of double victory / Jason Morgan Ward
  • The sexual politics of race in WWII America / Jane Dailey
  • Rights and World War II in a global frame : shape-shifting racial formations and the U.S. encounter with European and Japanese colonialism / Penny Von Eschen
  • Race, rights, and non-governmental organizations at the UN San Francisco Conference : a contested history of human rights
  • without discrimination / Elizabeth Borgwardt
  • The battlefield kill Jim Crow? : the cold war military, civil rights, and Black freedom struggles / Kimberley L. Phillips.

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