Divisions - A New History of Racism Resistance in America s World War II

Divisions draws together the history of race and the military; of high command and ordinary GIs; and of African Americans, white Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, arguing that racist divisions were a defining feature of America's World War II military.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• List of Abbreviations


• Introduction


• Part I: Enlistment


• Chapter 1: The Jim Crow Boomerang


• Chapter 2: Enlisting and Excluding an "Enemy Race"


• Part II: Assignment


• Chapter 3: The Backbone of Segregation


• Chapter 4: Separate Segregations


• Part III: Classification


• Chapter 5: The Boundaries of Blackness


• Part IV: Training


• Chapter 6: Jim Crow in Uniform


• Chapter 7: Bonds and Barriers


• Part V: Fighting


• Chapter 8: Deploying Jim Crow


• Chapter 9: Brothers in Arms?


• Conclusion


• Notes


• Index

About the author

Thomas A. Guglielmo is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of American Studies at George Washington University. He is the author of White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1940 (OUP, 2003), which won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians.

Summary

Divisions draws together the history of race and the military; of high command and ordinary GIs; and of African Americans, white Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, arguing that racist divisions were a defining feature of America's World War II military.

Additional text

A wonderful book. One of the best history books I've read in a long time.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas A. Guglielmo, Thomas A. (Associate Professor of Ameri Guglielmo, Thomas A. (Associate Professor of American Studies Guglielmo, Guglielmo Thomas A.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780195342659
• ISBN: 978-0-19-534265-9
• No. of pages: 528
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Military / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, History of the Americas, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General