| During the Spanish American war, African American's faced a serious dilema over what side they would take and what it meant for their patriotism and masculinity. For many African American's, this war was a way to prove their patriotism, though it was proving their patriotis, to a country that has shown them nothing but disrespect, violence, and hostility. However, in many of their minds, this war was a way have an equal claim to manhood through military service. They would often experience exclusion and oppression within the military, which stopped the, from being able to achieve their political goals. After the war moved into the Phillipeans, black troops began realizing the white supremacy in these transnational politics. Their support for the war started disolving as desertion rated for black soldiers started climbing. This highlihted the irony of the US claiming to be fighting for the freedom of Cube, while simultaneously perpetuating a society where oppression is still rampant. -Caroline Cochran | During the Spanish American war, African American's faced a serious dilema over what side they would take and what it meant for their patriotism and masculinity. For many African American's, this war was a way to prove their patriotism, though it was proving their patriotis, to a country that has shown them nothing but disrespect, violence, and hostility. However, in many of their minds, this war was a way have an equal claim to manhood through military service. They would often experience exclusion and oppression within the military, which stopped the, from being able to achieve their political goals. After the war moved into the Phillipeans, black troops began realizing the white supremacy in these transnational politics. Their support for the war started disolving as desertion rated for black soldiers started climbing. This highlihted the irony of the US claiming to be fighting for the freedom of Cube, while simultaneously perpetuating a society where oppression is still rampant. -Caroline Cochran |
| Piero Gleijeses brought the discussion of how African American's dealt with the reaction of the Spanish-American War and how they dealt with being both the oppressed and the oppressor when it came to the impacts of the War in the Philippines and other "liberated" Spanish territories. This allows for the cycle of oppression to continue, where the African Americans were on the higher point of the cycle to help and aide the Anglo-American ideals of their racial superiority to be forced onto other non-white communities. (sage Milton) | Piero Gleijeses brought the discussion of how African American's dealt with the reaction of the Spanish-American War and how they dealt with being both the oppressed and the oppressor when it came to the impacts of the War in the Philippines and other "liberated" Spanish territories. This allows for the cycle of oppression to continue, where the African Americans were on the higher point of the cycle to help and aide the Anglo-American ideals of their racial superiority to be forced onto other non-white communities. (sage Milton) |
