War! What Is It Good For? : Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq /

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"African Americans' long campaign for 'the right to fight' forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces. In War! What Is It Good For?, Kimberley Phillips examines how blacks' participation in the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Phillips, Kimberley L. (Kimberley Louise), 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
Fremder Feind
Soldat
Partizipation
Militär
Friedensbewegung
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Schwarze
War and society.
Protest movements.
Civil rights movements.
Armed Forces > African Americans.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans.
African American soldiers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
Guerre et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 > Contestation > États-Unis.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 > Noirs americains.
Militaires noirs americains > Histoire > 20e siecle.
War and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Protest movements > United States.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > African Americans.
African American soldiers > History > 20th century.
United States.
États-Unis > Forces armees > Noirs americains > Histoire > 20e siecle.
United States > Armed Forces > African Americans > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
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Sumario:"African Americans' long campaign for 'the right to fight' forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces. In War! What Is It Good For?, Kimberley Phillips examines how blacks' participation in the nation's wars after Truman's order and their protracted struggles for equal citizenship galvanized a vibrant antiwar activism that reshaped their struggles for freedom. Using an array of sources -- from newspapers and government documents to literature, music, and film -- and tracing the period from World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Phillips considers how federal policies that desegregated the military also maintained racial, gender, and economic inequalities. Since 1945, the nation's need for military labor, blacks' unequal access to employment, and discriminatory draft policies have forced black men into the military at disproportionate rates. While mainstream civil rights leaders considered the integration of the military to be a civil rights success, many black soldiers, veterans, and antiwar activists perceived war as inimical to their struggles for economic and racial justice and sought to reshape the civil rights movement into an antiwar black freedom movement. Since the Vietnam War, Phillips argues, many African Americans have questioned linking militarism and war to their concepts of citizenship, equality, and freedom."--Publisher's description.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (360 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469602295

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