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The article responds to the issue article "The Black Civil War Soldier: Conflict and Citizenship" by Deborah Willis. Topics include the significance of Willis' archival research for the article and the photographs included in it, the author's research on black U.S. soldiers in World War II, and expressions of U.S. patriotism by African American military personnel. Portrayals of World War II African American military personnel by poet Gwendolyn Brooks are noted.

The article responds to the issue article "The Black Civil War Soldier: Conflict and Citizenship" by Deborah Willis. Topics include the notion of citizenship in relation to African American military personnel, the notions of obedience and violence in relation to their service in the U.S. Civil War, and the role of the photographs presented by Willis as objects.

The article responds to the issue article "The Black Civil War Soldier: Conflict and Citizenship" by Deborah Willis. Topics include the nature of photography in relation to African American history, the role of service in the war in changing social norms related to slavery, and the use of sources such as photographs and letters by Willis.

The article discusses the service of African American military personnel in the U.S. Civil War, noting photographs and letters depicting their service. Topics include the role of racism in erasing the memories of black soldiers who took part in the war, the roles of slaves and free men as soldiers, and the 1900 exhibition "Exhibit of American Negroes" as part of the Universelle de Paris exposition at the Palace of Social Economy and Congresses in Paris, France.

At the end of the 1960s, the United States military was rocked by race-related violence and riots. Growing fears of black “militancy” eventually compelled the military's largely white leadership to implement policies aimed at ameliorating racial disparities. One of the most significant changes was the establishment of the Defense Race Relations Institute (DRRI) and the requirement that all troops partake in race relations education. Largely overlooked in histories of military race relations and rarely viewed in terms of its place in the larger landscape of US race relations, DRRI was founded to train the military's race relations educators. Its original curriculum and methodology, during the years 1971–74, represented a radical response to the problems of racism in the military, and central to its framework was a critique of whiteness as a nexus of racialized power. This paper attempts to present a complex understanding of the motivations involved in the founding of the DRRI as it historicizes the military's quest to contain race “militancy” through the establishment of DRRI. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An introduction is presented that discusses issue articles on topics include black soldiers in the U.S. Civil War, the life of basketball player Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and the relation of eugenics to documentary photographs taken by photographer Arthur Rothstein.