2016 Schmidt Symposium
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Black, White or Green?
The U.S. Army & “The Problem of Race” in the Vietnam Era
March 31, 2016
Brown Lupton University Union
Featured Presentation
Beth Bailey
Foundation Distinguished Professor, Kansas University
Beth Bailey is Foundation Distinguished Professor and the Founding Director of the
Center for Military, War, and Society Studies at the University of Kansas. Her primary
research interests include recent American history, the military and U.S. society,
and the history of gender and sexuality. She has written several books, including America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force (Harvard, 2009), Sex in the Heartland (Harvard, 1999), and From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in 20th Century America (Johns Hopkins University, 1988). She co-authored The First Strange Place: Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii (The Free Press, 1992) and is currently working on a new book entitled “The U.S.
Army and the Problem of Race, 1965-1985.”
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