ReviewDouglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. New York: Anchor Books, 2008. Cloth $29.95. Paper $16.95.

In the lead up to World War II, and in the course of the war itself, memories of the Civil War were deployed once again. This time, the war, the fight against slavery, and Lincoln in particular, assumed noteworthy prominence, reminding Americans of the importance of fighting a just and moral war. However, this created a challenging rhetorical environment for cementing a united homefront – including both white southerners and African Americans. White southerners, like Douglas Freeman, tried to keep Confederates prominent in the Civil War narrative, while black Americans used the new emphasis on Lincoln to talk about racial oppression at home and abroad. An anti-communist backlash, in the end, helped silence voices that focused on problems of racial oppression.

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Book Reviews : Forum for Protest: The Black Press During World War II. Lee Finkle. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1975. Pp. 249. $12.50The Afro American and the Second World War. Neil A. Wynn. New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1976. Pp. viii, 183. Black Americans in World War II. A. Russell Buchanan. Santa Barbara, CA: American Bibliographical Center-Clio Press, 1977. Pp. ix, 148. $13.50

Journal of Black Studies ◽

10.1177/002193477901000110 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 133-136

Author(s):

Alonzo N. Smith

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

World War Ii ◽

Black Americans ◽

Second World War ◽

Black Press ◽

World War ◽

Santa Barbara ◽

Second World

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Metamorphoses of memory of the the Russian-Serbian Brotherhood of War in Modern Serbia

MGIMO Review of International Relations ◽

10.24833/2071-8160-2020-4-73-142-156 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 142-156

Author(s):

A. Yu. Timofeev

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Civil War ◽

Party System ◽

Historical Memory ◽

Civil Conflict ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Post War ◽

The Stability ◽

Second World

The article considers the perception of World War II in modern Serbian society. Despite the stability of Serbian-Russian shared historical memory, the attitudes of both countries towards World wars differ. There is a huge contrast in the perception of the First and Second World War in Russian and Serbian societies. For the Serbs the events of World War II are obscured by the memories of the Civil War, which broke out in the country immediately after the occupation in 1941 and continued several years after 1945. Over 70% of Yugoslavs killed during the Second World War were slaughtered by the citizens of former Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The terror unleashed by Tito in the first postwar decade in 1944-1954 was proportionally bloodier than Stalin repressions in the postwar USSR. The number of emigrants from Yugoslavia after the establishment of the Tito's dictatorship was proportionally equal to the number of refugees from Russia after the Civil War (1,5-2% of prewar population). In the post-war years, open manipulations with the obvious facts of World War II took place in Tito's Yugoslavia. In the 1990s the memories repressed during the communist years were set free and publicly debated. After the fall of the one-party system the memory of World War II was devalued. The memory of the Russian-Serbian military fraternity forged during the World War II began to revive in Serbia due to the foreign policy changes in 2008. In October 2008 the President of Russia paid a visit to Serbia which began the process of (re) construction of World War II in Serbian historical memory. According to the public opinion surveys, a positive attitude towards Russia and Russians in Serbia strengthens the memories on general resistance to Nazism with memories of fratricide during the civil conflict events of 1941-1945 still dominating in Serbian society.

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“The heart above the ruins”: Miriam Waddington’s Poetry, the Spanish Civil War, and Jewish Canadian Literature

Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes ◽

10.25071/1916-0925.40065 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

Author(s):

Emily Robins Sharpe

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

World War Ii ◽

Civil War ◽

Spanish Civil War ◽

World War ◽

Canadian Literature ◽

The Earth ◽

The Holocaust ◽

The Subject ◽

War Consequences

The Jewish Canadian writer Miriam Waddington returned repeatedly to the subject of the Spanish Civil War, searching for hope amid the ruins of Spanish democracy. The conflict, a prelude to World War II, inspired an outpouring of literature and volunteerism. My paper argues for Waddington’s unique poetic perspective, in which she represents the Holocaust as the Spanish Civil War’s outgrowth while highlighting the deeply personal repercussions of the war – consequences for women, for the earth, and for community. Waddington’s poetry connects women’s rights to human rights, Canadian peace to European war, and Jewish persecution to Spanish carnage.

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