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X-WR-CALNAME:Douglas Bristol: Building Bridges: Black GIs\, Military Labor\
 , and the Fight for Equality in World War II
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DESCRIPTION:The Yale International Studies Workshop will host Building Brid
 ges: Black GIs\, Military Labor\, and the Fight for Equality in World War 
 II\, a conversation with Douglas Bristol.\n\nBristol is a historian of the
  African American experience. In his teaching and research\, he focuses on
  the beliefs\, institutions\, and strategies that ordinary Americans devel
 oped to exercise control over their lives.He co-edited Integrating the U.S
 . Military: Race\, Gender\, and Sexuality Since World War II\, to which he
  contributed a chapter on understanding the resistance of black soldiers d
 uring World War II. His current book project\, Khaki Globe Trotters\, expl
 ores how black GIs used military service in World War II to claim the New 
 Deal's promise of security. The Art of Manliness podcast and the PBS docum
 entary\, Boss: The Black Experience in Business\, featured his work.\n\nTh
 e Yale International Studies Workshop is produced with the support of The 
 Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund and The Whitney and Betty
  MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies\, and co-hosted by th
 e Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs.\n\nLunch will be provided for all
  participants. To request a copy of the paper\, please email Jack Guenther
  at Jack.Guenther@yale.edu.
GEO:41.31507;-72.923581
LOCATION:46 Hillhouse\, Seminar Room (104)
SUMMARY:Douglas Bristol: Building Bridges: Black GIs\, Military Labor\, and
  the Fight for Equality in World War II
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CATEGORIES:Talks and Lectures
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