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Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898-1948
Contributor(s): Polk, Khary Oronde (Author)

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 ISBN: 1469655497     ISBN-13: 9781469655499
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
OUR PRICE: $103.95  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- History | African American
- History | Military - United States
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
Dewey: 355.008
LCCN: 2019046672
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (1.37 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Topical - Black History
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
 
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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.


Contributor Bio(s): Polk, Khary Oronde: - Khary Oronde Polk is assistant professor of black studies and sexuality, women's, and gender studies at Amherst College.
 
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