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Séminaire Politiques américaines : Beth Bailey
Publié le 16 mai 2024
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Mis à jour le 16 mai 2024
Beth Bailey (University of Kansas) présentera son ouvrage An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2023)
Date(s)
le 28 mai 2024
14h30-16h
Lieu(x)
Bâtiment Max Weber (W)
Salle de séminaire 2
Beth Bailey (University of Kansas), présentation de An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2023)
La séance est accessible à distance. Merci d'écrire à Hélène Solot pour obtenir le lien de connexion.
By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in August 1968, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous Long Binh Jail, burned buildings, and beat a white inmate to death with a shovel. The days of "same mud, same blood" were over, and a new generation of Black GIs had decisively rejected the slights and institutional racism their forefathers had endured.
As Black and white soldiers fought in barracks and bars, with violence spilling into surrounding towns within the US and in West Germany, Vietnam, South Korea, and Japan, army leaders grew convinced that the growing racial crisis undermined the army’s ability to defend the nation. Acclaimed military historian Beth Bailey shows how the US Army tried to solve that racial crisis (in army terms, “the problem of race”). Army leaders were surprisingly creative in confronting demands for racial justice, even willing to challenge fundamental army principles of discipline, order, hierarchy, and authority. Bailey traces a frustrating yet fascinating story, as a massive, conservative institution came to terms with demands for change.
Beth Bailey is a Foundation Distinguished Professor of History and the director of the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies at the University of Kansas. Over the past decade and a half, her research has been primarily in the field of military, war, and society; she has also written extensively on the history of gender and sexuality in the modern United States. She is the author/co-author or editor/co-editor of 12 books, including Managing Sex in the U.S. Military: Gender, Identity, and Behavior (Nebraska, 2022), America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force (Belknap/Harvard, 2009), Sex in the Heartland (Harvard, 1999). Professor Bailey was elected to the Society of American Historians in 2017, and in 2022 received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History. In 2025-2026, she will be the Pitt Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge.As Black and white soldiers fought in barracks and bars, with violence spilling into surrounding towns within the US and in West Germany, Vietnam, South Korea, and Japan, army leaders grew convinced that the growing racial crisis undermined the army’s ability to defend the nation. Acclaimed military historian Beth Bailey shows how the US Army tried to solve that racial crisis (in army terms, “the problem of race”). Army leaders were surprisingly creative in confronting demands for racial justice, even willing to challenge fundamental army principles of discipline, order, hierarchy, and authority. Bailey traces a frustrating yet fascinating story, as a massive, conservative institution came to terms with demands for change.
La séance est accessible à distance. Merci d'écrire à Hélène Solot pour obtenir le lien de connexion.
Mis à jour le 16 mai 2024