Response to Deborah Willis's "The Black Civil War Soldier: Conflict and Citizenship"

King, N. (2017) Response to Deborah Willis's "The Black Civil War Soldier: Conflict and Citizenship". Journal of American Studies, 51 (2). pp. 331-338. ISSN 1469-5154 doi: 10.1017/S0021875817000482

Abstract/Summary

With references to my current research on African American World War II archives and from the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks I use special forum to assert that Willis’s successful negotiation of the public and private realms of representation of black Civil War soldiers offers an excellent model for research on black soldiers in U.S. military conflicts and their quest for recognition and equal treatment as soldiers, citizens and people.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/70262
Identification Number/DOI	10.1017/S0021875817000482
Refereed	No
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > Identities
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
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