Introduction. Veterans in the margins of modern American history / John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins -- So-called disabilities : Spanish War veterans and the New Deal's Economy Act / Barbara Gannon -- New frontiers for the new Negro : revisiting the World War Memoir and the postwar politics of Jesse L. Fraser in the 1920s / Robert Jefferson -- The unseen army : neuro-psychiatry, patient agency, and the First World War / Evan P. Sullivan -- Unsuitable for service : bedwetting veterans since World War II / John M. Kinder -- Uncle Sam's generosity? : Chicano veterans and the GI Bill, 1944-1974 / Steven Rosales -- Red, white, lavender, and blue : LGBT military veterans and the fight for military recognition / Heather Marie Stur -- Pawns in their wars : the Peace Committee of Southeast Asia and the tumultuous experiences of Vietnam POWs / Juan D. Coronado -- Our first sister : Lynda Van Devanter and the Vietnam veterans of America's Women's Project / Kara Dixon Vuic -- "The wrong man in uniform" : anti-draft Republicans and the ideological origins of the all-volunteer force, 1966-1973 / John Worsencroft -- The "patriot penalty" : National Guard and reserve troops, neoliberalism, and manufactured precarity in the era of perpetual conflict / David Kieran -- Prisoners after war : veterans in the age of mass incarceration / Jason A. Higgins -- Epilogue. #IAmVannessaGuillen / Jason A. Higgins and John M. Kinder.
Summary:
"Wartime military service is held up as a marker of civic duty and patriotism, yet the rewards of veteran status have never been equally distributed. Certain groups of military veterans-women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and former service members with stigmatizing conditions, "bad paper" discharges, or criminal records-have been left out of official histories, excised from national consciousness, and denied state recognition and military benefits. Chronicling the untold stories of marginalized veterans in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Service Denied uncovers the generational divides, cultural stigmas, and discriminatory policies that affected veterans during and after their military service. Together, the chapters in this collection recast veterans beyond the archetype, inspiring an innovative model for veterans studies that encourages an intersectional and interdisciplinary analysis of veterans history"-- Provided by publisher.
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