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Title |
"Smoked Yankees" and the struggle for empire : letters from Negro soldiers, 1898-1902 |
Author |
Willard B Gatewood, Jr. |
Publisher |
University of Illinois Press |
Published Place |
Urbana |
Published Date |
1971 |
Summary |
Black soldiers (called 'Smoked Yankees' by the Spaniards) hoped to ease Negro oppression in the United States by serving in the regular and volunteer armies during the Spanish-American War and fighting for the white man in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Selected from hundreds printed in the Negro press, these letters constitute a remarkably complete and hitherto undisclosed record of the black man's role (and attitudes) in America's struggle for empire at the turn of the century. Together they provide a wholly new perspective on the Spanish-American War and the Filipino Insurrection. |
Subjects |
African American soldiers. Brief. Spanisch-Amerikanischer Krieg. African Americans -- United States. United States -- History. |
ISBN |
0252001613 |
Collection |
Juanita Holland Library Collection |
Catalog Number |
2015.172 |
Call Number |
E185.63 .G38 |