Torchbearers of democracy [electronic resource] : African American soldiers in the World War I era / Chad L. Williams.
Electronic resources
Record details
- ISBN: 0807899356
- ISBN: 9780807899359
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 452 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
- Distributor: [Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Company, [2019]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-436) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on PDF title page, viewed July 17, 2019. |
