Steven White (New York Syracuse University)

World War II and American Racial Politics

Public Opinion, the Presidency, and Civil Rights Advocacy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is for political scientists, historians, sociologists, and educated lay readers interested in a more complete account of the Second World War's relationship with the response to black civil rights advocacy, as well as the more general relationship between war and the inclusion of marginalized groups in democratic societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 217
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9781108446648
• ISBN-10: 1108446647
• Artikelnr.: 63123175

Autorenporträt

Steven White is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, New York. His research examines race and American political development, particularly the complicated relationship between war and the inclusion of marginalized groups. His research has been published in Studies in American Political Development, American Politics Research, and Social Science Quarterly. He has also written for The Washington Post's Monkey Cage and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. White racial attitudes, 1937-1950
3. White veterans and racial attitudes, 1946-1961
4. The Roosevelt Administration and civil rights during the Second World War
5. The Truman Administration, military service, and postwar civil rights
6. War, race, and American political development
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.