Author:
Phillips, Kimberley L. (Kimberley Louise), 1960-
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.
Description343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-337) and index.
