Who Defends America?: Race, Sex, and Class in the Armed Forces

by McGeorge Bundy, Lawrence Korb, Elsie Moore, et al.

This book explores the increasingly significant role of blacks in the nation's armed services. Blacks represent only 12 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 20 percent of all active duty military personnel and about 30 percent of the army's soldiers. Should these statistics bother us? To answer this and related questions, Who Defends America? includes the views of leading experts from government and academia. Contributions include: 'Introduction'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941410781
• ISBN13: 9780941410786
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 176 Pages