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Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America
Closing Ranks
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2019
Summary
Fusing riveting testimony from African American veterans with the most incisive research of current military scholars, Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in 20th-Century America: Closing Ranks explores the intersecting characteristics of civil rights struggle and political activism that was reflected in the lives of ex-GIs throughout Twentieth Century American history. The volume examines black veterans’ social and political activities throughout the 20th Century, from the World Wars, through the Korean and Vietnam War, and ends with the Persian Gulf War. Presenting the full flesh and blood experiences of black veterans who came from backgrounds and from all walks of life, each essay captures how race, gender, ethnic, class, disability, generation, and region shaped their experiences in the nation’s military during times of war and how these issues profoundly affected the postwar politics they embraced while trying to realize the true meaning of equality in America. With original essays by emerging scholars in the field of study, Closing Ranks is a foundational text for reassessing the relationship between the ex-GI and the modern nation state and providing readers with a vivid window into the harsh realities that black citizen-soldiers have faced during war and its aftermath for nearly a century.
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Copyright year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-8631-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-8632-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
125
Product type
Edited Book
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Table of Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 “We Never Get to be Men” No access Pages 1 - 20
2 Frames Refocused No access Pages 21 - 40
3 Have Gun, Will Travel No access Pages 41 - 62
4 “The Military No More: Vietnam, Civil Rights, and Attitudes toward Change” No access Pages 63 - 80
5 African American Leadership’s Tug of War with Black Military Service Members No access Pages 81 - 104
