Heather Stur

The U.S. Military and Civil Rights Since World War II (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Through examinations of U.S. military racial and gender integration efforts and its handling of sexuality, this book argues that the need for personnel filling the ranks has forced the armed services to be pragmatically progressive since World War II.

The integration of African Americans and women into the United States Armed Forces after World War II coincided with major social movements in which marginalized civilians demanded equal citizenship rights. As this book explores, due to personnel needs, the military was a leading institution in its opening of positions to women and African Americans and its offering of educational and economic opportunities that in many cases were not available to them in the civilian world.

By opening positions to African Americans and women and remaking its "where boys become men" image, the military was an institutional leader on the issue of social equality in the second half of the 20th century. The pushback against gay men and women wishing to serve openly in the forces, however, revealed the limits of the military's pragmatic progressivism. This text investigates how policymakers have defined who belongs in the military and counts as a soldier, and examines how the need to attract new recruits led to the opening of the forces to marginalized groups and the rebranding of the services.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216158486
• Artikelnr.: 68167823

Autorenporträt

Heather Stur, PhD, is associate professor of history and fellow, Dale Center for the Study of War and Society, at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 The Military and American Society
Chapter 2 World War II and the Racial Integration of the Military Chapter 3
Racial Integration and the Cold War Chapter 4 Military Roles for Women from
World War II into the Early Cold War Chapter 5 The Sixties, Women, and the
Vietnam War Chapter 6 Women in the All-Volunteer Military Chapter 7
Homosexuality in the Military Conclusion Index