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War! what is it good for? : Black freedom struggles and the U.S. military from World War II to Iraq / Kimberley L. Phillips.

By: 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)
Other title:
  • Black freedom struggles and the U.S. military from World War II to Iraq
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355.0089/96073 23
LOC classification:
  • UB418.A47 P45 2012
Contents:
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.

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.

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