British West Indian Memories of World War One: From Militarized Citizenship to Conscientious Objection. Smith, R. In Puri, S. & Putnam, L., editors, Caribbean Military Encounters, of New Caribbean Studies, pages 39--47. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58014-6_3
British West Indian Memories of World War One: From Militarized Citizenship to Conscientious Objection [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
This chapter explores the contested meanings of West Indian military service in World War One. The West Indian popular imagination appropriated martial symbolism to support rewards for war veterans and in campaigns for greater equality, self-government and pan-Africanism. West Indian nations have also remembered military service in the world wars to affirm independent national status and to negotiate new relationships within the Commonwealth of Nations. The migration processes of the past seventy years have produced a further shift. West Indian wartime participation now forms part of citizenship and social inclusion agendas in the UK. However, this emphasis on front-line military service in the politics of war memory overshadows the memories of alternative perspectives in which identity is not limited by the myths of nationhood originating from European modernity.
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	title = {British {West} {Indian} {Memories} of {World} {War} {One}: {From} {Militarized} {Citizenship} to {Conscientious} {Objection}},
	copyright = {©2017 The Author(s)},
	isbn = {978-1-137-59058-9 978-1-137-58014-6},
	shorttitle = {British {West} {Indian} {Memories} of {World} {War} {One}},
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	abstract = {This chapter explores the contested meanings of West Indian military service in World War One. The West Indian popular imagination appropriated martial symbolism to support rewards for war veterans and in campaigns for greater equality, self-government and pan-Africanism. West Indian nations have also remembered military service in the world wars to affirm independent national status and to negotiate new relationships within the Commonwealth of Nations. The migration processes of the past seventy years have produced a further shift. West Indian wartime participation now forms part of citizenship and social inclusion agendas in the UK. However, this emphasis on front-line military service in the politics of war memory overshadows the memories of alternative perspectives in which identity is not limited by the myths of nationhood originating from European modernity.},
	language = {en},
	booktitle = {Caribbean {Military} {Encounters}},
	publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan US},
	author = {Smith, Richard},
	editor = {Puri, Shalini and Putnam, Lara},
	year = {2017},
	note = {DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58014-6\_3},
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	pages = {39--47}
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