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

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Superior document:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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Physical Description:xi, 343 p. :; ill.
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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.