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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Where are the Negro soldiers? The Double V Campaign and the segregated military
  • Jim Crow shock and the second front, 1945-1950
  • Glory on the battlefield: the Korean war, Cold War civil rights, and the paradox of Black military service
  • Did the battlefield kill Jim Crow? Black freedom struggles, the Korean War, and the Cold War military
  • Machine gun blues: Black America and the Vietnam War
  • Sing no more of war: Black freedom struggles and antiwar activism, 1960-1973
  • An epilogue about the United States and wars in medias res. Live from the front lines: military policy and soldiers' rap from Iraq.

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