Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II

Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II
ISBN-10
0521593387
ISBN-13
9780521593380
Category
Political Science
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2000-02-13
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Daniel Kryder

Description

This book describes and analyzes FDR's methods of war mobilization, by focusing on his administration's race manpower policies. Widespread but little-known racial violence threatened to disrupt the American war effort, and the Army as well as production officials struggled throughout the war to control and retain the allegiance of African-Americans. Like the century's three other Democratic presidents fighting wars, FDR struggled to contain racial unrest by deploying new policy tools suited to particular forms of friction.

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