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Warring over valor : how race and gender shaped American military heroism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / edited by Simon Wendt.
LIBRA E745 .W39 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- War culture
- War culture.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heroes--United States--History--20th century.
- Heroes.
- Heroes--United States--History--21st century.
- Armed Forces--Minorities.
- Armed Forces.
- Minorities.
- History.
- United States--Armed Forces--Minorities--History--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--Armed Forces--Minorities--History--21st century.
- United States--History, Military--20th century.
- History, Military.
- United States--History, Military--21st century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Military history.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- The end of military heroism? The American Legion and "service" between the Wars / George Lewis
- GI Joe Nisei: The invention of World War II's iconic Japanese American soldier / Ellen D. Wu
- Instrument of subjugation or avenue for liberation? Black military heroism from World War II to the Vietnam War / Simon Wendt
- "Warriors in uniform": Race, masculinity, and martial valor among native American veterans from the Great War to Vietnam and beyond / Matthias Voigt
- My Lai: The crisis of American military heroism in the Vetnam War / Steve Estes
- Leonard Matlovich: From military hero to gay rights poster boy / Simon Hall
- Displaying heroism: Media images of the weary soldier in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War / Amy Lucker
- "From louboutins to combat boots"? The negotiation of a twenty-first-century female warrior image in American popular culture and literature / Sarah Makeschin
- From warrior to soldier? Lakota veterans on military valor / Sonja John
- Virtual warfare: Video games, drones, and the reimagination of heroic
- Masculinity / Carrie Andersen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813597546
- 0813597544
- 9780813597539
- 0813597536
- OCLC:
- 1035811496
- Publisher Number:
- 99978580903
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