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Contagions of Empire
Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898-1948
Taschenbuch von Khary Oronde Polk
Sprache: Englisch

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From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion. Black men and women were mobilized for service in the Spanish-Cuban-American War under the War Department's belief that southern blacks carried an immunity against tropical diseases. Later, in World Wars I and II, black troops were stigmatized as members of a contagious "venereal race" and were subjected to experimental medical treatments meant to curtail their sexual desires. By turns feared as contagious and at other times valued for their immunity, black men and women played an important part in the U.S. military's conscription of racial, gender, and sexual difference, even as they exercised their embattled agency at home and abroad.

By following the scientific, medical, and cultural history of African American enlistment through the archive of American militarism, this book traces the black subjects and agents of empire as they came into contact with a world globalized by warfare.
From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion. Black men and women were mobilized for service in the Spanish-Cuban-American War under the War Department's belief that southern blacks carried an immunity against tropical diseases. Later, in World Wars I and II, black troops were stigmatized as members of a contagious "venereal race" and were subjected to experimental medical treatments meant to curtail their sexual desires. By turns feared as contagious and at other times valued for their immunity, black men and women played an important part in the U.S. military's conscription of racial, gender, and sexual difference, even as they exercised their embattled agency at home and abroad.

By following the scientific, medical, and cultural history of African American enlistment through the archive of American militarism, this book traces the black subjects and agents of empire as they came into contact with a world globalized by warfare.
Über den Autor
Khary Oronde Polk is assistant professor of black studies and sexuality, women's, and gender studies at Amherst College.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781469655505
ISBN-10: 1469655500
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Polk, Khary Oronde
Hersteller: The University of North Carolina Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Khary Oronde Polk
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.06.2020
Gewicht: 0,498 kg
Artikel-ID: 117404883
Über den Autor
Khary Oronde Polk is assistant professor of black studies and sexuality, women's, and gender studies at Amherst College.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781469655505
ISBN-10: 1469655500
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Polk, Khary Oronde
Hersteller: The University of North Carolina Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Khary Oronde Polk
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.06.2020
Gewicht: 0,498 kg
Artikel-ID: 117404883
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