World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition
by
Jennifer E. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
In the aftermath of World War II, Georgia's veterans--black, white, liberal, reactionary, pro-union, and anti-union--all found that service in the war enhanced their sense of male, political, and racial identity, but often in contradictory ways. In Defining the Peace, Jennifer E. Brooks shows how...