African American leaders such as Frederick Douglass long advocated
military service as an avenue to equal citizenship for black
Americans. Yet segregation in the U.S. armed forces did not
officially end until President Harry Truman issued an executive
order in 1948. What followed, at home and in the field, is the
subject of Brotherhood in Combat, the first full-length,
interdisciplinary study of the integration of the American military
during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Using a wealth of oral
histories from black and white soldiers and marines who served in
one or both conflicts, Jeremy P. Maxwell explores racial tension -
pervasive in rear units, but relatively rare on the front lines.
His work reveals that in initially proving their worth to their
white brethren on the battlefield, African Americans changed the
prevailing attitudes of those ranking officials who could bring
about changes in policy. Brotherhood in Combat also illustrates the
schism over attitudes toward civil-military relations that
developed between blacks who had entered the service prior to
Vietnam and those who were drafted and thus brought revolutionary
ideas from the continental United States to the war zone. More
important, Maxwell demonstrates how even at the height of civil
rights unrest at home, black and white soldiers found a sense of
brotherhood in the jungles of Vietnam. Incorporating military,
diplomatic, social, racial, and ethnic topics and perspectives,
Brotherhood in Combat presents a remarkably thorough and finely
textured account of integration as it was experienced and
understood in mid-twentieth-century America.
General
Imprint: |
University of Oklahoma Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2018 |
Authors: |
Jeremy P Maxwell
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8061-6006-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8061-6006-3 |
Barcode: |
9780806160061 |
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