War! what is it good for? : Black freedom struggles and the U.S. military from World War II to Iraq / Kimberley L. Phillips.
Series: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culturePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780807835029 (alk. paper)
- Black freedom struggles and the U.S. military from World War II to Iraq
- African American soldiers -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- African Americans
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States
- War and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- 355.0089/96073 23
- UB418.A47 P45 2012
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Where are the Negro soldiers? The Double V Campaign and the segregated military -- Jim Crow shock and the second front, 1945-1950 -- Glory on the battlefield: the Korean war, Cold War civil rights, and the paradox of Black military service -- Did the battlefield kill Jim Crow? Black freedom struggles, the Korean War, and the Cold War military -- Machine gun blues: Black America and the Vietnam War -- Sing no more of war: Black freedom struggles and antiwar activism, 1960-1973 -- An epilogue about the United States and wars in medias res. Live from the front lines: military policy and soldiers' rap from Iraq.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-337) and index.