Race, Politics, and Reconstruction - 9780813951904

Race, Politics, and ReconstructionThe First Black Cadets at Old West Point\nAuthor(s): Rory McGovern, Ronald G. Machoian\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813951904, 978-0813951904\nSynopsis\nThe first in-depth study of racial integration at West Point after the Civil War\n\nRace, Politics, and Reconstruction tells the story of racial integration at the United States Military Academy after the Civil War and spotlights the social environment and cultural currents that led to its failure. The first attempt to racially integrate West Point proved not simply a lost opportunity but an opportunity squandered with shocking degrees of forethought and deliberation.\n\nBy investigating West Points experience with race from varied and nuanced perspectives, including those of the first Black cadets, the US Army officer corps, white cadets, the Academys faculty and staff, and the Black and white American .