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Black veterans, politics, and civil rights in twentieth-century America : closing ranks
\"This collection examines the lives of African American soldiers and the sociopolitical world they constructed upon returning to the United States. The experiences analyzed in this volume provide a useful backdrop for understanding the complex relationship between race, war, and politics in the United States throughout the twentieth century.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Fighting for hope : African American troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and postwar America
Integrating social history and civil rights movement studies, Fighting for Hope examines the ways in which political meaning and identity were reflected in the aspirations of these black GIs and their role in transforming the face of America.
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Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century
This paper studies marriages across black, white, and Asian racial lines. Marrying across racial lines is a rare event, even today. Interracial marriages account for approximately 1 percent of white marriages, 5 percent of black marriages, and 14 percent of Asian marriages. Following a brief history of the regulation of race and romance in America, I analyze interracial marriage using census data from 1880–2000, uncovering a rich set of cross-section and time-series patterns. I investigate the extent to which three different theories of interracial marriage can account for the patterns discovered. After also testing a social exchange theory and a search model, I find the data are most consistent with a Becker-style marriage market model in which objective criteria of a potential spouse, their race, and the social price of intermarriage are central.
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Containing \Perversion\: African Americans and Same-Sex Desire in Cold War Los Angeles
Exclusively gay bars and organizations such as the Veterans Benevolent Association in New York emerged during or immediately following the war.4 Allan Bérubé provides additional information about the ways in which rnilitary service allowed some men and women to come to terms with their same-sex desires.5 In his sweeping reinterpretation of the emergence of gay identity, community, and politics, Bohemian Los Angeles, Daniel Hurewitz notes that wartime social changes expanded the network of gay bars and cruising areas throughout the Southern California metropolis.6 Most of these historians agree that official tolerance of same-sex behavior ended soon after the war. D'Emilio notes the efforts of US federal, military, and state and local officials to remove all homosexuals from government employment and military service, and he provides evidence to show that local police forces harassed lesbians and gay men in many American cities.7 As David K. Johnson points out in The Lavender Scare, the US Park Police launched a \"Pervert Elimination Campaign\" in October 1947, and Congress passed a sexual psychopath law for the District of Columbia in 1948.8 Hurewitz argues that persecution of \"homosexually active men and women\" increased dramatically in the mid-1980s.
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