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005			20240726105143.0
008			200421s2020 ncu ob s001 0 eng d
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020			_a9781469655529 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aUB418 _b.C668 2020
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aPolk, Khary Oronde, _e1
245	1	0	_aContagions of empire : _bscientific racism, sexuality, and black military workers abroad, 1898-1948 / _cKhary Oronde Polk.
260			_aChapel Hill : _bThe University of North Carolina Press, _c(c)2020.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_aCover -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tAbbreviations in the Text -- _tIntroduction -- _tChapter One. We Don't Need Another Hero: Death, Honor, and the Archive of American Militarism -- _tChapter Two. Negro Heroines: Gender, Race, and Immunity in the Spanish-Cuban-American War -- _tChapter Three. Charles Young in Five Acts: Patriots, Traitors, and the Performance of American Militarism -- _tChapter Four. Contagious Immunity: Race, Sexuality, and the Black Venereal Body Abroad -- _tChapter Five. Communicable Subjects: African American Soldiers Trip the Global Color Line
505	0	0	_aEpilogue: The Long Arc of Black Military Opportunity -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex -- _tA -- _tB -- _tC -- _tD -- _tE -- _tF -- _tG -- _tH -- _tI -- _tJ -- _tK -- _tL -- _tM -- _tN -- _tO -- _tP -- _tQ -- _tR -- _tS -- _tT -- _tU -- _tV -- _tW -- _tY
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650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xGovernment policy _zUnited States.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2446567&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell