Torchbearers of democracy [electronic resource] : African American soldiers in World War I era / Chad L. Williams.
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2010.
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| Series: | John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Democracy at war : African Americans, citizenship, and the meanings of military service
- The "race question" : the U.S. government and the training experiences of African American soldiers
- The hell of war : African American soldiers in labor and combat
- Les soldats noir : France, Black military service, and the challenges of internationalism and diaspora
- Waging peace : the end of the war and the hope of democracy
- The war at home : African American veterans and violence in the long "red summer"
- Soldiers to "new Negroes" : African American veterans and postwar racial militancy
- Lest we forget : the war and African American soldiers in history and memory.