This book describes and analyzes FDR's methods of war mobilization, by focusing on his administration's race manpower policies.
Widespread but little-known racial violence threatened to disrupt the American war effort, and the Army as well as production officials struggled throughout the war to control and retain the allegiance of African-Americans.
Like the century's three other Democratic presidents fighting wars, FDR struggled to contain racial unrest by deploying new policy tools suited to particular forms of friction.
By:
Daniel Kryder
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 228mm,
Width: 151mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9780521004589
ISBN 10: 0521004586
Publication Date: 02 May 2001
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1. A divided arsenal: the problem and its setting; 2. The executive and political imperatives: presidential campaigns and race management policies on the eve of war; 3. The Executive and National Security Imperatives: unrest and early struggles over racial manpower policies; 4. The racial politics of industrial employment: Central State Authority and the adjustment of factory work; 5. The racial politics of army service: Central State Authority and the control of black soldier resistance; 6. June 9, 1943: 'Negro soldier trouble' at Camp Stewart, Georgia; 7. The racial politics of urban and rural unrest: monitoring agriculture and surveilling cities; 8. 'America again at the crossroads': war, the state and social conflict.
Reviews for Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II
'Given the tremendous impact that the war had upon race relations in the USA, and the relative lack of studies on the subject, Divided Arsenal is a much-needed contribution to the field.' Journal of Contemporary History
