Fog of War : The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement
ISBN: 9780195382402 | 0195382404
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 2/1/2012
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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 America... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Contributors | p. ix |
| Introduction: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement | p. 3 |
| Freedom to Want: The Federal Government and Politicized Consumption in World War II | p. 15 |
| Confronting the Roadblock: Congress, Civil Rights, and World War II | p. 32 |
| Segregation and the City: White Supremacy in Alabama in the Mid-Twentieth Century | p. 51 |
| Movement Building dur... MORE | p. 70 |
| Hillburn, Hattiesburg, and Hitler: Wartime Activists Think Globally and Act Locally | p. 87 |
| "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 | p. 103 |
| "A War for States' Rights": The White Supremacist Vision of Double Victory | p. 126 |
| The Sexual Politics of Race in World War II America | p. 145 |
| Civil Rights and World War II in a Global Frame: Shape-Shifting Racial Formations and the U.S. Encounter with European and Japanese Colonialism | p. 171 |
| Race, Rights, and Nongovernmental Organizations at the UN San Francisco Conference: A Contested History of "Human Rights... without Discrimination" | p. 188 |
| "Did the Battlefield Kill Jim Crow?": The Cold War Military, Civil Rights, and Black Freedom Struggles | p. 208 |
| Index | p. 231 |
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Kevin M. Kruse is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University and the author of White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Stephen Tuck is University Lecturer in American History at the University of Oxford and the author of We Ain't What We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama.
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