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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: War! what is it good for?
    sub title: Black freedom struggles and the U.S. military from World War II to Iraq
  name:
    name part: Phillips, Kimberley L. (Kimberley Louise)
    name part: 1960-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 343 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: "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."--Jacket.
  table of 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.
  note: Kimberley L. Phillips.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: African American soldiers
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Armed Forces
    topic: African Americans
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    topic: African Americans
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Civil rights
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Civil rights movements
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    topic: Protest movements
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: War and society
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: UB418.A47 P45 2012
  classification: 355.0089/96073
  related item:
    title info:
      title: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
  identifier: 9780807835029 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 0807835021 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 2011031531
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110725
    record change date: 20190820151024.0
    record identifier: in00002742608