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Peace, War, and Partnership - Congress and the Military Since World War II (Hardcover): William A. Taylor Peace, War, and Partnership - Congress and the Military Since World War II (Hardcover)
William A. Taylor; Steven Casey, Jeremy P Maxwell, Charles A Stevenson, Robert David Johnson, …
R1,619 Discovery Miles 16 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Brotherhood in Combat - How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam (Hardcover): Jeremy P Maxwell Brotherhood in Combat - How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam (Hardcover)
Jeremy P Maxwell
R1,146 R820 Discovery Miles 8 200 Save R326 (28%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America - Closing Ranks: Selika M Ducksworth-Lawton, Elizabeth... Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America - Closing Ranks
Selika M Ducksworth-Lawton, Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas, Robert F. Jefferson; Edited by Robert F. Jefferson; Contributions by Hal M. Friedman, …
R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America - Closing Ranks (Hardcover): Robert F. Jefferson Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America - Closing Ranks (Hardcover)
Robert F. Jefferson; Contributions by Robert F. Jefferson, Hal M. Friedman, Kevin Greene, Selika M Ducksworth-Lawton, …
R3,106 Discovery Miles 31 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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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