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

2012 THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ;ISBN: 9780807835029 ;ISBN: 0807835021 ;ISBN: 9780807869086 ;ISBN: 0807869082 ;ISBN: 1469613891 ;ISBN: 9781469613895 ;EISBN: 1469602296 ;EISBN: 9781469602295 ;EISBN: 9780807869086 ;EISBN: 0807869082 ;OCLC: 769344368 ;LCCallNum: UB418.A47P45 2012

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    War! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq
  • Author: Phillips Boehm, Kimberley L
  • Subjects: 20th Century ; African American soldiers ; African American Studies ; African Americans ; Armed Forces ; Civil rights ; Civil rights movements ; Ethnic Studies ; HISTORY ; Protest movements ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; United States ; Vietnam War, 1961–1975 ; War and society
  • Description: 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. InWar! 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: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Creation Date: 2012
  • Format: 360
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780807835029
    ISBN: 0807835021
    ISBN: 9780807869086
    ISBN: 0807869082
    ISBN: 1469613891
    ISBN: 9781469613895
    EISBN: 1469602296
    EISBN: 9781469602295
    EISBN: 9780807869086
    EISBN: 0807869082
    OCLC: 769344368
    LCCallNum: UB418.A47P45 2012
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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