%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°Deep
%A Margarita Aragon
%J Men and Masculinities
%@ 1552-6828
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1097184X17703156
%X This article examines the construction of ¡°unfit¡± black masculinity in institutional and medical discourses of the American military during World War II. Examining the military medical literature on ¡°maladjustment¡± in context of the armed forces practice of segregation, I argue that by ignoring the impact of segregation, military psychiatrists reproduced linkages between blackness and ¡°defect.¡± Despite the absence of direct assertions of racial hierarchy, these discourses thus implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, construed black manhood as alternately feeble and menacing, but above all as ¡°abnormal¡± in both mind and body. Examining articles from psychiatric and military medical journals, as well as the internal documents of military officials, I investigate these claims in regard to the conceptualization and management of ¡°constitutional defects¡± and psychosomatic illness
%K medicine
%K race
%K war
%K United States
%K segregation
%K disability
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1097184X17703156