Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of
the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg
argues that policy makers' idealized conceptions of Cold War
middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for
conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed
that college educated men could protect the nation from the threat
of communism more effectively as civilians than as soldiers. The
availability of deferments for this group mushroomed between 1945
and 1965, making it less and less likely that middle-class white
men would serve in the Cold War army. Meanwhile, officials used the
War on Poverty to target poorer and racialized men for conscription
in the hopes that military service would offer them skills they
could use in civilian life. As Rutenberg shows, manpower policies
between World War II and the Vietnam War had unintended
consequences. While some men resisted military service in Vietnam
for reasons of political conscience, most did so because manpower
polices made it possible. By shielding middle-class breadwinners in
the name of national security, policymakers militarized certain
civilian roles—a move that, ironically, separated military
service from the obligations of masculine citizenship and,
ultimately, helped kill the draft in the United States.
General
| Imprint: |
Cornell University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2019 |
| Authors: |
Amy J. Rutenberg
(Assistant Professor)
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
276 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5017-3936-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-5017-3936-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781501739361 |
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