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245 10 a| Contagions of empireh| [electronic resource] :b| scientific racism, sexuality, and black military workers abroad, 1898-1948 /c| Khary Oronde Polk.;

260 a| Chapel Hill :b| The University of North Carolina Press,c| 2020.;

300 a| xvii, 270 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-262) and index.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion. Black men and women were mobilized for service in the Spanish-Cuban-American War under the War Department's belief that Southern blacks carried an immunity against tropical diseases. Later, in World Wars I and II, black troops were stigmatized as members of a contagious "venereal race," and were subjected to experimental medical treatments meant to curtail their sexual desires. By turns feared as contagious, and at other times valued for their immunity, black men and women played an important part in the U.S. military's conscription of racial, gender, and sexual difference, even as they exercised their embattled agency at home and abroad. By following the scientific, medical, and cultural history of African American enlistment through the archive of American militarism, this book traces the black subjects and agents of empire as they came into contact with a world globalized by warfare"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Contagions of empire scientific racism, sexuality, and black military workers abroad, 1898-1948 / Khary Oronde Polk.

Author/creator	Polk, Khary Oronde
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Description	xvii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Oxford UNC Press Titles
Subjects	African Americans--Government policy. --United States. United States--Armed Forces. --African Americans. --History. United States--Armed Forces. --African Americans. --Social conditions.

Abstract	"From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion. Black men and women were mobilized for service in the Spanish-Cuban-American War under the War Department's belief that Southern blacks carried an immunity against tropical diseases. Later, in World Wars I and II, black troops were stigmatized as members of a contagious "venereal race," and were subjected to experimental medical treatments meant to curtail their sexual desires. By turns feared as contagious, and at other times valued for their immunity, black men and women played an important part in the U.S. military's conscription of racial, gender, and sexual difference, even as they exercised their embattled agency at home and abroad. By following the scientific, medical, and cultural history of African American enlistment through the archive of American militarism, this book traces the black subjects and agents of empire as they came into contact with a world globalized by warfare"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-262) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2019046672
ISBN	9781469655499 (cloth)
ISBN	9781469655505 (paperback)
ISBN	(ebook)

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