Title Divisions : a new history of racism and resistance in America's World War II military / Thomas A. Guglielmo

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 509 pages) : illustrations (some color) Contents The Jim Crow Boomerang -- Enlisting and Excluding an "Enemy Race" -- The Backbone of Segregation -- Separate Segregations -- The Boundaries of Blackness -- Jim Crow in Uniform -- Bonds and Barriers -- Deploying Jim Crow -- Brothers in Arms? Summary "Divisions examines racism and resistance in America's World War II military. The military built not one color line, but a complex tangle of them, involving every imaginable aspect of military life. Who served? Who fought? Who died? Who gave orders and who was forced to follow them? Who received the best ratings and jobs and pay and promotions? Who was court-martialed? Who received furloughs and leaves? Who received honorable or dishonorable discharges? Who ate at the officers' club? Who danced at the post's main recreation center? Who drank at the best pub in Cherbourg, France or swam at the nicest pool in Calcutta? Color lines, which divided American troops in various configurations, often spoke definitively in all these matters and more. Taken together, they represented a sprawling structure of white supremacy and of African American, Japanese American, and other nonwhites' subordination. Varied freedom struggles arose in response, democratizing portions of the wartime military and setting the postwar stage for its desegregation and for the flowering of civil rights movements beyond. But the costs of the military's color lines were devastating. They impeded America's war effort; undermined the nation's Four-Freedoms rhetoric; traumatized, even killed, an unknowable number of nonwhite troops; further naturalized the very concept of race; deepened many whites' investments in white supremacy, especially anti-black racism; and further fractured the American people"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed April 13, 2022) Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American Discrimination in the military -- United States -- History -- 20th century World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- United States World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Hispanic American World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Indian World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Asian American Hispanic American soldiers Armed Forces -- Asian Americans Armed Forces Armed Forces -- African Americans Discrimination in the military Military participation -- African American Military participation -- Indian Social aspects SUBJECT United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century United States -- Armed Forces -- Indian -- History -- 20th century United States -- Armed Forces -- Hispanic Americans -- History -- 20th century United States -- Armed Forces -- Asian Americans -- History -- 20th century Subject United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021016388 ISBN 9780190940355 0190940352 0190939907 9780190939908

Other Titles New history of racism and resistance in America's World War II military

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