Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America

Closing Ranks
Herausgeber: Jefferson, Robert F.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collectionexamines the lives of African American soldiers and the sociopolitical world they constructed upon returning to the United States. The experiences analyzed in this volume provide a useful backdrop for understanding the complex relationship between race, war, and politics in the United States throughout the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• War and Society in Modern American History
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 375g
• ISBN-13: 9781498586313
• ISBN-10: 1498586317
• Artikelnr.: 54611334

Autorenporträt

Edited by Robert F. Jefferson Jr. - Contributions by Robert F. Jefferson Jr.; Hal M. Friedman; Kevin Greene; Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton; Jeremy P. Maxwell; Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas and Peter Karsten

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
by Hal M. Friedman Introduction: Recovering the Scions of Jericho: America's Wars
Black Veterans' Politics
and Civil Rights in Twentieth Century American History
by Robert F. Jefferson
Jr. Chapter 1: "We Never Get to Be Men:" Big Bill Broonzy
Black Consciousness
and WWI's Returning Black Veterans
by Kevin Greene Chapter 2: "Frames Refocused: Blinded Black and White Ex-GIs and the Social Re-Orientation of Self in World War Two America
" by Robert F. Jefferson
Jr. Chapter 3: "Have Gun
Will Travel: The Deacons for Defense and Justice
Armed Self Defense and the Long Black Power Movement
" by Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton Chapter 4: "The Military No More: Vietnam
Civil Rights
and Attitudes Toward Change
" by Jeremy P. Maxwell Chapter 5: "African American Leadership's Tug of War with Black Military Service Members: Rhetorical Situation Strategies in the Face of the Persian Gulf War
" by Elizabeth Desnoyers-Colas Afterword: How to Place These Fine Essays into Larger Contexts
by Peter Karsten