Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America: Closing Ranks (War and Society in Modern American History) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498586317 ISBN 13: 9781498586313

Verlag: Lexington Books, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Robert F. Jefferson Jr. is associate professor of history at the University of New Mexico.

Elizabeth Desnoyers-Colas, PhD, is assistant professor of communication and the faculty coordinator of the African American Male Initiative Program at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia. A retired U.S. Air Force Major, her past military duties include serving as a speechwriter for senior DOD military and civilian officials on EEO/EO related issues and operating as the director of the Joint Task Force Information Bureau, Haitian Refuge Humanitarian Rescue Effort, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. She also served in Operation Desert Storm and was deployed to Central Air Forces, Forward, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, as the director of Public Affairs/Protocol.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1498586317
• ISBN 13: 9781498586313
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 146
• Herausgeber: Jefferson Jr. Robert F.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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