Divided arsenal: race and the American state during World War II

1. A divided arsenal: the problem and its setting.

2. The executive and political imperatives: presidential campaigns and race management policies on the eve of war.

3. The executive and national security imperatives: unrest and early struggles over racial manpower policies.

4. The racial politics of industrial employment: central state authority and the adjustment of factory work.

5. The racial politics of army service: central state authority and the control of black soldier resistance.

6. June 9, 1943: "Negro soldier trouble" at Camp Stewart, Georgia.

7. The racial politics of urban and rural unrest: monitoring farms and surveilling cities.

8. "America again at the crossroads": war and race in the twentieth-century United States.