Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I: War -- 1 DEMOCRACY AT WAR: African Americans, Citizenship, and the Meanings of Military Service -- 2 THE "RACE QUESTION": The U.S. Government and the Training Experiences of African American Soldiers -- 3 THE HELL OF WAR: African American Soldiers in Labor and Combat -- 4 LES SOLDATS NOIRS: France, Black Military Service, and the Challenges of Internationalism and Diaspora -- Part II: Peace? -- 5 WAGING PEACE: The End of the War and the Hope of Democracy -- 6 THE WAR AT HOME: African American Veterans and Violence in the Long "Red Summer" -- 7 SOLDIERS TO "NEW NEGROES": African American Veterans and Postwar Racial Militancy -- 8 LEST WE FORGET: The War and African American Soldiers in History and Memory -- EPILOGUE -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.