Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America -

Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America

Closing Ranks

Robert F. Jefferson Jr. (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
146 Seiten
2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8633-7 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
This collection examines the lives of African American soldiers and the sociopolitical world they constructed upon returning to the United States. The experiences analyzed in this volume provide a useful backdrop for understanding the complex relationship between race, war, and politics in the United States throughout the twentieth century.
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.

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

Foreword: Looking Back and Looking Ahead, by Hal M. Friedman

Introduction: Recovering the Scions of Jericho: America’s Wars, Black Veterans’ Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth Century American History, by Robert F. Jefferson, Jr.

Chapter 1: “We Never Get to Be Men:” Big Bill Broonzy, Black Consciousness, and WWI’s Returning Black Veterans, by Kevin Greene

Chapter 2: “Frames Refocused: Blinded Black and White Ex-GIs and the Social Re-Orientation of Self in World War Two America,” by Robert F. Jefferson, Jr.

Chapter 3: “Have Gun, Will Travel: The Deacons for Defense and Justice, Armed Self Defense and the Long Black Power Movement,” by Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton

Chapter 4: “The Military No More: Vietnam, Civil Rights, and Attitudes Toward Change,” by Jeremy P. Maxwell

Chapter 5: “African American Leadership’s Tug of War with Black Military Service Members: Rhetorical Situation Strategies in the Face of the Persian Gulf War,” by Elizabeth Desnoyers-Colas

Afterword: How to Place These Fine Essays into Larger Contexts, by Peter Karsten

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie War and Society in Modern American History
Co-Autor Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton, Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas, Robert F. Jefferson Jr., Hal M. Friedman
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 154 x 224 mm
Gewicht 227 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4985-8633-3 / 1498586333
ISBN-13 978-1-4985-8633-7 / 9781498586337
Zustand Neuware
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