Divisions

Divisions draws together the history of race and the military; of high command and ordinary GIs; and of African Americans, white Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, arguing that racist divisions were a defining feature of America's World War II military.

Thomas A. Guglielmo is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of American Studies at George Washington University. He is the author of White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1940 (OUP, 2003), which won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians.

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Enlistment
Chapter 1: The Jim Crow Boomerang
Chapter 2: Enlisting and Excluding an "Enemy Race"
Part II: Assignment
Chapter 3: The Backbone of Segregation
Chapter 4: Separate Segregations
Part III: Classification
Chapter 5: The Boundaries of Blackness
Part IV: Training
Chapter 6: Jim Crow in Uniform
Chapter 7: Bonds and Barriers
Part V: Fighting
Chapter 8: Deploying Jim Crow
Chapter 9: Brothers in Arms?
Conclusion
Notes
Index