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100	1		_aMcCoy, Cameron D. _q(Cameron Demetrius), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aContested valor : _bAfrican American Marines in the age of power, protest, and tokenism / _cCameron D. McCoy.
246	3	0	_aAfrican American Marines in the age of power, protest, and tokenism
264		1	_aLawrence, Kansas : _bUniversity Press of Kansas, _c[2023]
300			_axxi, 350 pages : _billustrations, map ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aStudies in civil-military relations
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	2		_a"Mr. President, what of the Marines?" -- "Bloods" and the "White Man's Folly."
520			_a"Contested Valor is an examination of the use and status of black Marines in service during the Cold War era. It is about how these men experienced contested military integration, as well as multiple forms of institutional and social opposition, which called their humanity, manhood, and rights to full citizenship into question. Efforts to undermine their service compromised their right to be counted among the elite and sidelined their story to the fringes of Marine Corps and American history. It also explores the creation of these organizational policies designed to minimize their footprint as U.S. Marines until the social experiment of military integration faded and illustrates the discriminatory practices that further delegitimized their wartime reputation. Cameron McCoy describes the factors and pressures leading to the racial turbulence that surfaced in the Marine Corps from the end of World War II through Vietnam, and the measures taken by civilian and Marine officials to maintain and restore organizational integrity based on a foundation of white supremacy. McCoy examines the psychological effects of institutionalized racism on African American Marines during the Vietnam era and the emergence of a new generation of blacks unwilling to submit to the traditions of a Jim Crow Marine Corps. By exploring the realities American society created about black Marines, this work calls attention to the diverse ways in which these men coped within a strict prejudiced organization and found greater purpose as U.S. Marines despite an embattled image"-- _cProvided by publisher.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bMarine Corps _xAfrican Americans _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aMontford Point Camp (Camp Lejeune, N.C.)
650		0	_aRace discrimination _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century. _9136367
651		0	_aUnited States _xRace relations _xHistory _y20th century. _938238
650		0	_aSociology, Military _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century. _9263118
830		0	_aStudies in civil-military relations.
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