Service denied : marginalized veterans in modern American history / edited by John M. Kinder & Jason A. Higgins.

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"Wartime military service is held up as a marker of civic duty and patriotism, yet the rewards of veteran status have never been equally distributed. Certain groups of military veterans-women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and former service members with stigmatizing conditions, "bad paper" dischar...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Veterans (University of Massachusetts Press)
Other Authors: Kinder, John M. (John Matthew), 1975- (Editor)
Higgins, Jason A., 1985- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]
Series:Veterans (University of Massachusetts Press)
Subjects:
Veterans > United States > History.
Veterans > United States > Social conditions.
Marginality, Social > United States.
United States > Armed Forces > Minorities > History.
United States > Armed Forces > African Americans > History.
United States > Armed Forces > Women > History.
Anciens combattants > États-Unis > Histoire.
Anciens combattants > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
États-Unis > Forces armées > Minorités > Histoire.
États-Unis > Forces armées > Noirs américains > Histoire.
Armed Forces > African Americans.
Armed Forces > Minorities.
Armed Forces > Women.
Marginality, Social.
Veterans.
Veterans > Social conditions.
United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction. Veterans in the margins of modern American history / John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins
  • So-called disabilities : Spanish War veterans and the New Deal's Economy Act / Barbara Gannon
  • New frontiers for the new Negro : revisiting the World War Memoir and the postwar politics of Jesse L. Fraser in the 1920s / Robert Jefferson
  • The unseen army : neuro-psychiatry, patient agency, and the First World War / Evan P. Sullivan
  • Unsuitable for service : bedwetting veterans since World War II / John M. Kinder
  • Uncle Sam's generosity? : Chicano veterans and the GI Bill, 1944-1974 / Steven Rosales
  • Red, white, lavender, and blue : LGBT military veterans and the fight for military recognition / Heather Marie Stur
  • Pawns in their wars : the Peace Committee of Southeast Asia and the tumultuous experiences of Vietnam POWs / Juan D. Coronado
  • Our first sister : Lynda Van Devanter and the Vietnam veterans of America's Women's Project / Kara Dixon Vuic
  • "The wrong man in uniform" : anti-draft Republicans and the ideological origins of the all-volunteer force, 1966-1973 / John Worsencroft
  • The "patriot penalty" : National Guard and reserve troops, neoliberalism, and manufactured precarity in the era of perpetual conflict / David Kieran
  • Prisoners after war : veterans in the age of mass incarceration / Jason A. Higgins
  • Epilogue. #IAmVannessaGuillen / Jason A. Higgins and John M. Kinder.