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Recasting Race After World War II
Schroer Timothy
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Description for Recasting Race After World War II
Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBW; JFSL1; JFSL3; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.
Explores the re-negotiation of race by Germans and African American GIs in post-World War II Germany. Schroer dissects the ways in which notions of blackness and whiteness became especially problematic in interactions between Germans and American soldiers serving as part of the victorious occupying army at the end of the war. The segregation of US Army forces fed a growing debate in America about whether a Jim Crow army could truly be a democratising force in post-war Germany. Schroer follows the evolution of that debate and examines the ways in which post-war conditions necessitated re-examination of race relations. He reveals ... Read more
Explores the re-negotiation of race by Germans and African American GIs in post-World War II Germany. Schroer dissects the ways in which notions of blackness and whiteness became especially problematic in interactions between Germans and American soldiers serving as part of the victorious occupying army at the end of the war. The segregation of US Army forces fed a growing debate in America about whether a Jim Crow army could truly be a democratising force in post-war Germany. Schroer follows the evolution of that debate and examines the ways in which post-war conditions necessitated re-examination of race relations. He reveals ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of Colorado United States
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Colorado, United States
ISBN
9780870818691
SKU
V9780870818691
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About Schroer Timothy
Timothy L. Schroer is an assistant professor in the History Department of the University of West Georgia.
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