Contested Valor : African American Marines in the Age of Power, Protest, and Tokenism

Cameron D McCoy

ISBN 10: 0700635777 / ISBN 13: 9780700635771

Edité par University Press Of Kansas Nov 2023, 2023

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Neuware - Contested Valor is a challenging examination of the use and status of black Marines in United States military service during the Cold War era. These pioneering men experienced contested military integration, as well as multiple forms of institutional and social opposition, which called their humanity, manhood, and rights to full citizenship into question. Efforts to undermine their service compromised their right to be counted among the elite and sidelined their story to the fringes of Marine Corps and US history.

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• Titre: Contested Valor : African American Marines in the Age of Power, Protest, and Tokenism
• Éditeur: University Press Of Kansas Nov 2023
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0700635777
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780700635771
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 230 L x 154 H x 38 P (en millimètres) 230 millimètres de largeur par 154 millimètres de hauteur par 38 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 726 grammes

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Contested Valor is a challenging examination of the use and status of black Marines in United States military service during the Cold War era. These pioneering men experienced contested military integration, as well as multiple forms of institutional and social opposition, which called their humanity, manhood, and rights to full citizenship into question. Efforts to undermine their service compromised their right to be counted among the elite and sidelined their story to the fringes of Marine Corps and US history.

Cameron McCoy describes the factors and pressures leading to the racial turbulence that surfaced in the Marine Corps from the end of World War II through Vietnam, and the measures taken by civilian and Marine officials to maintain and restore organizational integrity based on a foundation of white supremacy. He examines the psychological effects of institutionalized racism on African American Marines during the Vietnam era and the emergence of a new generation of black men unwilling to submit to the traditions of a Jim Crow Marine Corps. By exploring the realities American society constructed about black Marines, this work calls attention to the diverse ways in which these men coped within a strict, prejudiced organization and found greater purpose as US Marines despite an embattled image.

Contested Valor weaves the experiences of black Americans in the armed forces into the larger tapestry of the American racialist past and aptly captures the dilemmas, triumphs, and pitfalls that the first African American Marines encountered during the contentious eras of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. McCoy explores the creation of organizational policies designed to minimize their footprint as US Marines until the social experiment of military integration faded and illustrates the discriminatory practices that further delegitimized their wartime reputation.

McCoy demonstrates that black Marines' absence from the historical record has been compounded by the negligence and oversight of past historians as the Marine Corps reckons with its racist past and its first black Marines.

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Cameron D. McCoy holds a PhD in US Diplomatic and Military History from the University of Texas at Austin and is a resident senior officer at the US Naval War College.