| Description |
1 online resource (203 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The Battalion: In Place of Myth -- Early Challenges: Indifference, Desertions, Discharges and Discipline -- Trouble in the Battalion: Command and the Fifty Undesirables -- Courts-Martial: Insights into the Battalion -- Razors and Race: Cultural Conflicts and Sexual Fantasies -- "All the boys are anxious to get a chance at Fritz." -- The Strange Death of Private Sydney David -- War's End -- A Land Fit for Heroes -- Reflections on the Battalion's History |
| Summary |
This book investigates the story of 600 Black men from across North America and the Caribbean, who, in 1917, went to war in a labour unit, No. 2 Construction Battalion. Regarded then by senior Command as morally infectious, a century later they have become central actors in a powerful cultural myth, celebrated in folk tales, poetry, drama and text. Black Soldiers in a White Man's War examines critically that mythical narrative. Based on service records of the 600 volunteers and 35 courts-martial in the unit, it probes the lives of these soldiers, who laboured in the forests of France during 191 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Canada. Canadian Army. Construction Battalion, 2 -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Canada. Canadian Army. Construction Battalion, 2 fast |
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Kanada Canadian Expeditionary Force Construction Battalion 2 gnd |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, African American
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Soldiers, Black -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
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Military history.
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Black & Asian studies.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Military participation -- African American
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Soldiers, Black
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Schwarze
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Weltkrieg 1914-1918
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781527522855 |
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1527522857 |
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