Daniel Kryder

Divided Arsenal

Race and the American State During World War II

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comparison of the causes and effects of federal race policy during World War II.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780521004589
• ISBN-10: 0521004586
• Artikelnr.: 21368497

Inhaltsangabe

1. A divided arsenal: the problem and its setting; 2. The executive and
political imperatives: presidential campaigns and race management policies
on the eve of war; 3. The Executive and National Security Imperatives:
unrest and early struggles over racial manpower policies; 4. The racial
politics of industrial employment: Central State Authority and the
adjustment of factory work; 5. The racial politics of army service: Central
State Authority and the control of black soldier resistance; 6. June 9,
1943: 'Negro soldier trouble' at Camp Stewart, Georgia; 7. The racial
politics of urban and rural unrest: monitoring agriculture and surveilling
cities; 8. 'America again at the crossroads': war, the state and social
conflict.