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Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State During World War II

* Paperback: 318 pages
* Publisher: Cambridge University Press; New Ed edition (29 Jan 2001)
* Language English
* ISBN-10: 0521004586
* ISBN-13: 978-0521004589
* Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 2 cm

Divided Arsenal compares the causes and effects of federal race policy during World War II in factories, the Army, and agriculture. While scholars such as Gunner Mydrdal have suggested that wars promote the salience of the nation's founding democratic and egalitarian ideals, two overarching executive imperatives - the full mobilization of industrial production, as well as the maintenance of the New Deal Coalition - outweigh the goals of interracial reform. The history of industrial employment policies confirms the role of party and war-fighting concerns in both the creation of the Fair Employment Practices Committee and in the committee's subsequent investigative casework. While military racial policies were initially repressive, by spurring black soldier resistance they paradoxically facilitated steps toward desegregation by transforming the executive's calculation of military efficiency. Important similarities in the timing and quality of reform in the three fields indicates that war-fighting concerns affected policy outcomes despite variations in African-American political and economic opportunities in various sectors and sections.

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