Fog of War The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement

Name: Fog of War The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement
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ISBN: 9780195382402

ISBN-10: 0195382404

ISBN-13: 9780195382402

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kevin M. Kruse, Stephen Tuck

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This collection is a timely reconsideration of the intersection between two of the dominant events of twentieth-century American history, the upheaval wrought by the Second World War and the social revolution brought about by the African American struggle for equality. Scholars from a wide range of fields explore the impact of war on the longer history of African American protest from many angles: from black veterans to white segregationists, from the rural South to northern cities, from popular culture to federal politics, and from the American confrontations to international connections.It is well known that World War II gave rise to human rights rhetoric, discredited a racist regime…

Book details

List price: $33.49
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.17" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Contributors


Introduction: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement




Freedom to Want: The Federal Government and Politicized Consumption in World War II




Confronting the Roadblock: Congress, Civil Rights, and World War II




Segregation and the City: White Supremacy in Alabama in the Mid-Twentieth Century




Movement Building during the World War II Era: The NAACP's Legal Insurgency in the South




Hillburn, Hattiesburg, and Hitler: Wartime Activists Think Globally and Act Locally




"You can sing and punch...but you can't be a soldier or a man": African American Struggles for a New Place in Popular Culture




"A War for States' Rights": The White Supremacist Vision of Double Victory




The Sexual Politics of Race in World War II America




Civil Rights and World War II in a Global Frame: Shape-Shifting Racial Formations and the U.S. Encounter with European and Japanese Colonialism




Race, Rights, and Nongovernmental Organizations at the UN San Francisco Conference: A Contested History of "Human Rights... without Discrimination"




"Did the Battlefield Kill Jim Crow?": The Cold War Military, Civil Rights, and Black Freedom Struggles



Index