Smoked Yankees And The Struggle For Empire
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Smoked Yankees and the Struggle for Empire
Author | : Willard Badgette Gatewood |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:656692294 |
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Smoked Yankees and the Struggle for Empire
Author | : Willard B. Gatewood |
Publsiher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780938626886 |
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Called upon for the first time during the Spanish-American War to render military service outside the United States, negro soldiers (called "smoked Yankees" by the Spaniards) tell their compelling story through letters sent back to U.S. newspapers.
Smoked Yankees and the struggle for empire letters from negro soldiers 1898 1902
Author | : Willard B. Gatewood |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : African American soldiers |
ISBN | : OCLC:632463767 |
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The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U S Culture
Author | : Amy Kaplan |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2005-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674264939 |
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The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent interventions abroad, as if a line between domestic and foreign affairs could be neatly drawn. Yet this book argues that such a distinction, so obviously impracticable in our own global era, has been illusory at least since the war with Mexico in the mid-nineteenth century and the later wars against Spain, Cuba, and the Philippines. In this book, Amy Kaplan shows how U.S. imperialism--from "Manifest Destiny" to the "American Century"--has profoundly shaped key elements of American culture at home, and how the struggle for power over foreign peoples and places has disrupted the quest for domestic order. The neatly ordered kitchen in Catherine Beecher's household manual may seem remote from the battlefields of Mexico in 1846, just as Mark Twain's Mississippi may seem distant from Honolulu in 1866, or W. E. B. Du Bois's reports of the East St. Louis Race Riot from the colonization of Africa in 1917. But, as this book reveals, such apparently disparate locations are cast into jarring proximity by imperial expansion. In literature, journalism, film, political speeches, and legal documents, Kaplan traces the undeniable connections between American efforts to quell anarchy abroad and the eruption of such anarchy at the heart of the empire.
Mutiny of Rage
Author | : Jaime Salazar |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2021-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781633886896 |
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Salado Creek, Texas, 1918: Thirteen black soldiers stood at attention in front of gallows erected specifically for their hanging. They had been convicted of participating in one of America’s most infamous black uprisings, the Camp Logan Mutiny, otherwise known as the 1917 Houston Riots. The revolt and ensuing riots were carried out by men of the 3rd Battalion of the all-black 24th U.S. Infantry Regiment—the famed Buffalo Soldiers—after members of the Houston Police Department violently menaced them and citizens of the local black community. It all took place over one single bloody night. In the wake of the uprising, scores lay dead, including bystanders, police, and soldiers. This incident remains one of Texas’ most complicated and misrepresented historical events. It shook race relations in Houston and created conditions that sparked a nationwide surge of racial activism. In the aftermath of the carnage, what was considered the “trial of the century” ensued. Even for its time, its profundity and racial significance rivals that of the O.J. Simpson trial eight decades later. The courts-martial resulted in the hanging of over a dozen black soldiers, eliciting memories of slave rebellions. But was justice served? New evidence from declassified historical archives indicates that the courts-martial were rushed in an attempt to placate an angered white population as well as military brass. Mutiny of Rage sheds new light on a suppressed chapter in U.S. history. It also sets the legal record straight on what really happened, all while situating events in the larger context of race relations in America, from Nat Turner to George Floyd.
American Niceness
Author | : Carrie Tirado Bramen |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2017-08-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674976498 |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraphs -- Contents -- Introduction: American Niceness and the Democratic Personality -- 1. Indian Giving and the Dangers of Hospitality -- 2. Southern Niceness and the Slave's Smile -- 3. The Christology of Niceness -- 4. Feminine Niceness -- 5. The Likable Empire from Plymouth Rock to the Philippines -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Freedom Struggles
Author | : Adriane Lentz-Smith |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674054189 |
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For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a world beyond Jim Crow. They returned home to join activists working to make that world real. In narrating the efforts of African American soldiers and activists to gain full citizenship rights as recompense for military service, Adriane Lentz-Smith illuminates how World War I mobilized a generation. Black and white soldiers clashed as much with one another as they did with external enemies. Race wars within the military and riots across the United States demonstrated the lengths to which white Americans would go to protect a carefully constructed caste system. Inspired by Woodrow Wilson’s rhetoric of self-determination but battered by the harsh realities of segregation, African Americans fought their own “war for democracy,” from the rebellions of black draftees in French and American ports to the mutiny of Army Regulars in Houston, and from the lonely stances of stubborn individuals to organized national campaigns. African Americans abroad and at home reworked notions of nation and belonging, empire and diaspora, manhood and citizenship. By war’s end, they ceased trying to earn equal rights and resolved to demand them. This beautifully written book reclaims World War I as a critical moment in the freedom struggle and places African Americans at the crossroads of social, military, and international history.