“A General Separation of Colored and White”: the WWII riots, military segregation, and racism(s) beyond the White/Nonwhite binary

This article uses archival research to explore important differences in the discursive and institutional positioning of Mexican American and African American men during World War II. Through the focal point of the riots which erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities in the summer of 1943, I examine the ways in which black and Mexican ‘rioters’ were imagined in official and popular discourses. Though both groups of youth were often constructed as deviant and subversive, there were also divergences in the ways in which their supposed racial difference was discursively configured. I also consider the experiences of each group in the WWII military, a subject that has received little attention in previous work on the riots. Though both groups were subject to discrimination and brutality on the home front, only African Americans were segregated in the military - a fact that profoundly influenced the 1943 riots. Examining the very different conditions under which these men served, as well as the distinct ways in which their presence within the military and on the home front was interpreted and given meaning by press, law enforcement and military officials helps to illuminate the uneven and complex workings of racism in America, disrupting the common conceptualization of a definitive white/nonwhite color line

Franco-German Frontier 1914

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Loaned by the American Geographical Society to the Peace Conference at Versailles, 1918-1919."Grayscale1:790,00

Infantry training /

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Memorandum on gas poisoning in warfare : with notes on its pathology and treatment /

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Notes on grenade warfare /

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Specimens of British trench orders /

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Gettysburg.

Various scales.LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 351Cover title."Memoranda for Gettysburg campaign, 1863. Army War College, Session of 1906-7."The three preliminary leaves give a chronological summary of the battle. Maps are numbered 9 to 18. They show the troop positions in color from June 29th through July 3rd. Corps and divisions are identified, sometimes with numbers, more frequently by names of commanding officers. Cavalry and artillery are located by symbol, and arrows show movements of battle. The large scale maps give topography by hachures, drainage, vegetation, roads, railroads, and a few place names.These maps bear the same numbering and are almost identical with those in Abner Doubleday's Gettysburg Made plain (New York, Century Co., 1909)Description derived from published bibliography

Notes on the methods of attack and defense to meet the conditions of modern warfare /

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