Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State During World War II

Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State During World War 11. By Daniel Kryder. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-521-- 59338-7. Maps. Tables. Notes. Appendixes. Index. Pp. xv, 301. $29.95.

Political scientist Daniel Kryder of MIT offers a fresh look at race relations in the military and American society during the Second World War. He succeeds not only in describing the causes and effects of race management policies in America during the war years, but also in demonstrating that the statesmen who established those policies did so for pragmatic reasons that followed the time-honored rules of Western war making. Specifically, he shows that the Roosevelt administration "implemented policies that have appeared progressive, but other purposes-the full mobilization of industrial production and the maintenance of the party...