Self-selection versus Socialization Revisited: Military Service, Racial Resentment, and Generational Membership

Scholarship on racial attitudes has found that white veterans of World War II and the Korean War had more positive views of blacks than white civilians. However, more recent studies have argued that white veterans who have served in an all-volunteer force (AVF) now express more virulent views of bla...

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Published in:Armed forces and society 2016-04, Vol.42 (2), p.362-385
Main Authors: Nteta, Tatishe M., Tarsi, Melinda R.
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Korean War
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Attitudes
Civil war
Cooperation
Elections
Hostility
Korean War
Membership
Military personnel
Military service
Race relations
Racism
Scholarship
Socialization
Veterans
War
World War II
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