Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 White Racial Attitudes, 1937–1950
- 3 White Veterans and Racial Attitudes, 1946–1961
- 4 The Roosevelt Administration and Civil Rights During World War II
- 5 The Truman Administration, Military Service, and Postwar Civil Rights
- 6 War, Race, and American Political Development
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - War, Race, and American Political Development
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 July 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 White Racial Attitudes, 1937–1950
- 3 White Veterans and Racial Attitudes, 1946–1961
- 4 The Roosevelt Administration and Civil Rights During World War II
- 5 The Truman Administration, Military Service, and Postwar Civil Rights
- 6 War, Race, and American Political Development
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter gathers the evidence from the preceding chapters to offer a refinement of the more general theoretical relationship between war and the inclusion of marginalized groups based on this book's analysis of World War II and the response to black civil rights advocacy. The chapter then discusses questions that remain open for future scholarship, particularly possibilities that might arise from expanding the scope of the analysis to other political institutions and other marginalized groups. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the importance of studying war to better understand the outcomes of not just civil rights politics, but domestic political processes more generally.
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- World War II and American Racial PoliticsPublic Opinion, the Presidency, and Civil Rights Advocacy, pp. 157 - 171Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019