Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth Century Americ - Closing Ranks

This collectionexamines the lives of African American soldiers and the sociopolitical world they constructed upon returning to the United States. The experiences analyzed in this volume provide a useful backdrop for understanding the complex relationship between race, war, and politics in the United States throughout the twentieth century.

List of contents

Foreword: Looking Back and Looking Ahead, by Hal M. Friedman

Introduction: Recovering the Scions of Jericho: America's Wars, Black Veterans' Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth Century American History, by Robert F. Jefferson, Jr.

Chapter 1: "We Never Get to Be Men:" Big Bill Broonzy, Black Consciousness, and WWI's Returning Black Veterans, by Kevin Greene

Chapter 2: "Frames Refocused: Blinded Black and White Ex-GIs and the Social Re-Orientation of Self in World War Two America," by Robert F. Jefferson, Jr.

Chapter 3: "Have Gun, Will Travel: The Deacons for Defense and Justice, Armed Self Defense and the Long Black Power Movement," by Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton

Chapter 4: "The Military No More: Vietnam, Civil Rights, and Attitudes Toward Change," by Jeremy P. Maxwell

Chapter 5: "African American Leadership's Tug of War with Black Military Service Members: Rhetorical Situation Strategies in the Face of the Persian Gulf War," by Elizabeth Desnoyers-Colas

Afterword: How to Place These Fine Essays into Larger Contexts, by Peter Karsten

About the author

Edited by Robert F. Jefferson Jr. - Contributions by Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton; Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas; Robert F. Jefferson Jr.; Hal M. Friedman; Kevin Greene; Jeremy P. Maxwell and Peter Karsten

Product details

• Authors: Robert F. Jefferson
• Assisted by: Robert F. Jefferson (Editor), Robert F. Jefferson Jr. (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2023
• EAN: 9781498586337
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8633-7
• No. of pages: 146
• Series: War and Society in Modern American History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; USA, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / United States, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, HISTORY / Military / Veterans, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Civil rights & citizenship, Military veterans, Human rights, civil rights, Black & Asian Studies, HISTORY / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people