War! what is it good for?
Subtitle: Black freedom struggles and the U.S. military from World War II to Iraq
By: by Kimberley L. Phillips
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807835029
Subjects: Protest movements; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Civil rights; Civil rights movements; War and society; Armed Forces; African Americans; African American soldiers; History
Other titles: Black freedom struggles and the U.S. military from World War II to Iraq
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Where are the Negro soldiers? The Double V Campaign and the segregated military; title: Jim Crow shock and the second front, 1945-1950; title: Glory on the battlefield: the Korean war, Cold War civil rights, and the paradox of Black military service; title: Did the battlefield kill Jim Crow? Black freedom struggles, the Korean War, and the Cold War military; title: Machine gun blues: Black America and the Vietnam War; title: Sing no more of war: Black freedom struggles and antiwar activism, 1960-1973; title: An epilogue about the United States and wars in medias res. Live from the front lines: military policy and soldiers' rap from iraq.