Service Denied : Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History / edited by John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kinder, John M. (John Matthew), 1975- editor.

Higgins, Jason A., 1985- editor.

Series:

Veterans (University of Massachusetts Press)

Veterans Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social--United States.

Veterans.

Veterans--Social conditions.

Veterans--United States--History.

Veterans--United States--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, Massachusetts : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Wartime military service is held up as a marker of civic duty and patriotism, yet the rewards of veteran status have never been equally distributed. Certain groups of military veterans-women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and former service members with stigmatizing conditions, "bad paper" discharges, or criminal records-have been left out of official histories, excised from national consciousness, and denied state recognition and military benefits. Chronicling the untold stories of marginalized veterans in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Service Denied uncovers the generational divides, cultural stigmas, and discriminatory policies that affected veterans during and after their military service. Together, the chapters in this collection recast veterans beyond the archetype, inspiring an innovative model for veterans studies that encourages an intersectional and interdisciplinary analysis of veterans history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Veterans in the margins of modern American history / John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins

So-called disabilities : Spanish War veterans and the New Deal's Economy Act / Barbara Gannon

New frontiers for the new Negro : revisiting the World War Memoir and the postwar politics of Jesse L. Fraser in the 1920s / Robert Jefferson

The unseen army : neuro-psychiatry, patient agency, and the First World War / Evan P. Sullivan

Unsuitable for service : bedwetting veterans since World War II / John M. Kinder

Uncle Sam's generosity? : Chicano veterans and the GI Bill, 1944-1974 / Steven Rosales

Red, white, lavender, and blue : LGBT military veterans and the fight for military recognition / Heather Marie Stur

Pawns in their wars : the Peace Committee of Southeast Asia and the tumultuous experiences of Vietnam POWs / Juan D. Coronado

Our first sister : Lynda Van Devanter and the Vietnam veterans of America's Women's Project / Kara Dixon Vuic

"The wrong man in uniform" : anti-draft Republicans and the ideological origins of the all-volunteer force, 1966-1973 / John Worsencroft

The "patriot penalty" : National Guard and reserve troops, neoliberalism, and manufactured precarity in the era of perpetual conflict / David Kieran

Prisoners after war : veterans in the age of mass incarceration / Jason A. Higgins

Epilogue. #IAmVannessaGuillen / Jason A. Higgins and John M. Kinder.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Kinder, John M. Service Denied

ISBN:

9781613769317

1613769318

OCLC:

1293448687