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Article: Race, War, and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States Government during World War I
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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CopyrightCopyright Southern Historical Association Nov 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Race, War, and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States Government during World War I. By Mark Ellis. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xxii], 325. $45.00, ISBN 0-253-33923-5.)
Mark Ellis's compelling new book is one of several studies published recently by Indiana University Press that have offered in-depth explorations of the federal government's antiradical activities during World War I. Drawing on a rich and extensive collection of intelligence files, Ellis's timely study focuses on the wartime expansion of governmental powers to investigate ordinary citizens suspected of subversion or disloyalty, and more specifically, on how this ...