Name: Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93Rd Infantry Division in World war ii and Postwar America (War (en Inglés)
Price: 12610.00 CLP
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Author: Robert F. Jefferson
ISBN: 9780801888281

portada Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93Rd Infantry Division in World war ii and Postwar America (War (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Johns Hopkins University Press

Autor

Robert F. Jefferson

Año

2008

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

321

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Peso

ISBN

080188828X

ISBN13

9780801888281

Categorías

Segunda guerra mundial - (c. 1939-c. 1945)
Segunda guerra mundial

Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93Rd Infantry Division in World war ii and Postwar America (War (en Inglés)

Robert F. Jefferson (Autor) · Johns Hopkins University Press · Tapa Dura

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This fascinating history shows how African-American military men and women seized their dignity through barracks culture and community politics during and after World War II.Drawing on oral testimony, unpublished correspondence, archival records, memoirs, and diaries, Robert F. Jefferson explores the curious contradiction of war-effort idealism and entrenched discrimination through the experiences of the 93rd Infantry Division. Led by white officers and presumably unable to fight―and with the army taking great pains to regulate contact between black soldiers and local women―the division was largely relegated to support roles during the advance on the Philippines, seeing action only later in the war when U.S. officials found it unavoidable. Jefferson discusses racial policy within the War Department, examines the lives and morale of black GIs and their families, documents the debate over the deployment of black troops, and focuses on how the soldiers’ wartime experiences reshaped their perspectives on race and citizenship in America. He finds in these men and their families incredible resilience in the face of racism at war and at home and shows how their hopes for the future provided a blueprint for America’s postwar civil rights struggles.Integrating social history and civil rights movement studies, Fighting for Hope examines the ways in which political meaning and identity were reflected in the aspirations of these black GIs and their role in transforming the face of America.