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 Professor of American Studies and History 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