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

Description: Contested Valor by Cameron D. McCoy Offers 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. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography 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. Table of Contents Series Editors ForewordPrefaceThe TrailblazersAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPartI: "Mr. President, What of the Marines?"1. Token Devil Dogs2. You People: Things Must Be Rough for Uncle Sam3. The Myth of Image: American Culture& the Propaganda War MachinePart II: Bloods and the "White Man Folly"4. A Return to Normalcy: "What Are You Doing Saluting That Nigger?"5. Growing Pains: Black Solidarity and the Arsenal of White Supremacy6. For a New GenerationConclusionAppendix: Supplemental DocumentsNotesBibliographyIndex Review This remarkable book, Contested Valor, greatly expands our knowledge of the underappreciated story of the introduction of African Americans into the Marine Corps. Cameron McCoy, through meticulous research and germane argumentation, shows the significance of integration from the first African Americans in the corps in 1942 through the divisive Vietnam War. It is a must-read for all those interested in military and African American history." - Kyle Longley, director of the War, Diplomacy, and Society Program at Chapman University and author of The Morenci Marines: A Tale of Small Town America and the Vietnam War Details ISBN0700635777 Author Cameron D. McCoy Pages 376 Publisher University Press of Kansas ISBN-13 9780700635771 Format Hardcover Imprint University Press of Kansas Subtitle African American Marines in the Age of Power, Protest, and Tokenism Place of Publication Kansas Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2023-11-16 NZ Release Date 2023-11-16 UK Release Date 2023-11-16 ISBN-10 0700635777 Audience Professional & Vocational DEWEY 359.960973 Year 2023 Publication Date 2023-11-30 US Release Date 2023-11-30 Series Studies in Civil-Military Relations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:154744775;

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