A Black Army: Segregation and the Us Military at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 1941-1945 - Couverture rigide

Peretz, Pauline

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009521497 ISBN 13 : 9781009521499

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

From 1941 to 1945, 30,000 African-American infantrymen were stationed at Fort Huachuca near the Mexican border. It was the only 'black post' in the country. Separated from white troops and civilian communities, these infantrymen were forced to accept the rules and discipline that the US Army, convinced of their racial inferiority, wanted to impose on them. Mistrustful of black soldiers, the Army feared mutiny and organized a harsh segregation that included strict confinement, control of the infantrymen during training and leisure, and the physical separation of white and black officers to diffuse any suggestion that equality of rank translated into social equality. In this book, available for the first time in English, Pauline Peretz uncovers America's tortuous relationship with its black soldiers against the backdrop of a war fought in the name of democracy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Pauline Peretz teaches American History at the Université Paris 8 and is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She is the author of several books, including Une armée noire, the French edition of this book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009521497
• ISBN 13: 9781009521499
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie