Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War

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Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front

â€œI realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun.â€ So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World War II when they went to work in the factories, fields, and mines while their compatriots fought in the battlefields of Europe and on the bloody beaches of the Pacific. The male experience of working and living in wartime America is rarely examined, but the story of men like these provides a crucial counter-narrative to the national story of Rosie the Riveter and GI Joe that dominates scholarly and popular discussions of World War II.

In Meet Joe Copper, Matthew L. Basso describes the formation of a powerful, white, working-class masculine ideology in the decades prior to the war, and shows how it thrivedâ€”on the job, in the community, and through union politics. Basso recalls for us the practices and beliefs of the first- and second-generation immigrant copper workers of Montana while advancing the historical conversation on gender, class, and the formation of a white ethnic racial identity. Meet Joe Copper provides a context for our ideas of postwar masculinity and whiteness and finally returns the men of the home front to our reckoning of the Greatest Generation and the New Deal era.

Country	USA
Author	Matthew L. Basso
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780226044224
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of Chicago Press
Manufacturer	University of Chicago Press
NumberOfPages	360
PublicationDate	2013-07-17
Publisher	University of Chicago Press
ReleaseDate	2013-07-17
Studio	University of Chicago Press

Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front

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