War! what is it good for?, black freedom struggles and the U.S. military from World War II to Iraq, Kimberley L. Phillips
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- African Americans + Civil rights
- Protest movements
- Civil rights movements
- CULTURAL HERITAGE / African American
- War and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- History
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- African American soldiers
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 + Protest movements -- United States
- CULTURAL HERITAGE / African
- Armed Forces + African Americans
- 1900 - 1999
- United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 + African Americans
- African American soldiers + History -- 20th century
- United States
- War and society
- CULTURAL HERITAGE / Asian / Korean
- African Americans
- African Americans + Civil rights + History -- 20th century
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War! what is it good for?, black freedom struggles and the U.S. military from World War II to Iraq, Kimberley L. Phillips
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
War! what is it good for?
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
711043304
Responsibility statement
Kimberley L. Phillips
Series statement
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Sub title
black freedom struggles and the U.S. military from World War II to Iraq
Summary
"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 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."--Jacket
Table of contents
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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Black freedom struggles and the U.S. military from World War II to Iraq
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