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War! What Is It Good For?

Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq

By: Kimberley Phillips Boehm

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War! What Is It Good For?

Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq

By: Kimberley Phillips Boehm

African Americans' long campaign for "the right to fight" forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces. In War! What Is It Good For?, Kimberley Phillips examines how blacks' participation in the nation's wars after Truman's order and their protracted struggles for equal citizenship galvanized a vibrant antiwar activism that reshaped their struggles for freedom. Using an array of sources--from newspapers and government documents to literature, music, and film--and tracing the period from World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Phillips considers how federal policies that desegregated the military also maintained racial, gender, and economic inequalities. Since 1945, the nation's need for military labor, blacks' unequal access to employment, and discriminatory draft policies have forced black men into the military at disproportionate rates. While mainstream civil rights leaders considered the integration of the military to be a civil rights success, many black soldiers, veterans, and antiwar activists perceived war as inimical to their struggles for economic and racial justice and sought to reshape the civil rights movement into an antiwar black freedom movement. Since the Vietnam War, Phillips argues, many African Americans have questioned linking militarism and war to their concepts of citizenship, equality, and freedom.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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ISBN 10

0807869082

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9780807869086

Daily Life during African American Migrations

By: Kimberley L. Phillips

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Daily Life during African American Migrations

By: Kimberley L. Phillips

This book examines the century-long migration of African Americans who moved within the South after the Civil War and then left to settle permanently in other regions, irrevocably altering the political, social, and cultural history of the United States; and considers these movements within the broader historical, political, and cultural context of the African Diaspora. Daily Life during African American Migrations focuses attention to the everyday social, cultural, and political lives of migrants in the United States as they established communities far away from their former homes. This book examines blacks' labor and urban experiences, social and political activism, and cultural and communal identities, while also considering the specificity of African Americans' migration as part of their long struggle for freedom and equality. The author merges information from black migration studies, which focus on the internal movement of African American people in the United States, with African Diaspora studies, which consider peoples of African descent who have settled far from their native homes-either voluntarily or through duress-to document how these immigrants and their children create new communities while maintaining cultural connections with Africa. The stories of the nine million African Americans who collectively left the South between 1865 and 1965-and the millions more who left the Caribbean and Africa-not only document this long history of migration, but also present compelling human drama.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216070764

War! What Is It Good For?

Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq

By: Kimberley Phillips Boehm

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Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq

By: Kimberley Phillips Boehm

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807869082

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9780807869086

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War! What Is It Good For?

War! What Is It Good For?

Daily Life during African American Migrations

Daily Life during African American Migrations

War! What Is It Good For?

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