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Contagions of empire : scientific racism, sexuality, and Black military workers abroad, 1898-1948 /

"From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion. Black men and women were mobilized for service in the Spanish-Cuban-American War under the War Dep...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Polk, Khary Oronde (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations in the Text
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. We Don't Need Another Hero: Death, Honor, and the Archive of American Militarism
  • Chapter Two. Negro Heroines: Gender, Race, and Immunity in the Spanish-Cuban-American War
  • Chapter Three. Charles Young in Five Acts: Patriots, Traitors, and the Performance of American Militarism
  • Chapter Four. Contagious Immunity: Race, Sexuality, and the Black Venereal Body Abroad
  • Chapter Five. Communicable Subjects: African American Soldiers Trip the Global Color Line
  • Epilogue: The Long Arc of Black Military Opportunity
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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