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008			221018s2023 ncua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2022049609
020			_a9781469673264 _q(cloth ; _qalk. paper)
020			_z9781469673271 _q(ebook)
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050	0	0	_aUB418 .A47 _bB35 2023
082	0	0	_a355.0089/96073 _223/eng/20230118
084			_aHIS027070 _aSOC001000 _2bisacsh
100	1		_aBailey, Beth L., _d1957-
245	1	3	_aAn army afire : _bhow the US Army confronted its racial crisis in the Vietnam era / _cBeth Bailey.
246	3	0	_aHow the US Army confronted its racial crisis in the Vietnam era
264		1	_aChapel Hill : _bThe University of North Carolina Press, _c[2023]
300			_a341 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aA tactic of silence -- Same mud, same blood -- Defining the problem -- Leadership -- Education and training -- Culture and identity -- Off-post discrimination -- Military justice -- Affirmative actions.
520			_a"By the Tet Offensive in early 1968, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in August of that year, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous Long Binh Jail, burned buildings, and beat a white inmate to death with a shovel. The days of 'same mud, same blood' were over, and by the end of the decade, a new generation of Black GIs had decisively rejected the slights and institutional racism their forefathers had endured. Acclaimed military historian Beth Bailey shows how the Army experienced, defined, and tried to solve racism and racial tension (in its own words, 'the problem of race') in the Vietnam War era. Some individuals were sympathetic to the problem but offered solutions that were more performative than transformational, while others proposed remedies that were antithetical to the army's fundamental principles of discipline, order, hierarchy, and authority. Bailey traces a frustrating yet fascinating arc where the army initially rushed to create solutions without taking the time to fully identify the origins, causes, and proliferation of racial tension. It was a difficult, messy process, but only after Army leaders ceased viewing the issue as a Black issue and accepted their own roles in contributing to the problem did change become possible"-- _cProvided by publisher.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bArmy _xAfrican American troops _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aAfrican American soldiers _xCivil rights _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aDiscrimination in the military _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aVietnam War, 1961-1975.
651		0	_aUnited States _xRace relations _xHistory _y20th century.
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