首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Joseph Glatthaar’s Forged in Battle is not the first excellent study of Black soldiers and their White officers in the Civil War
Joseph Glatthaar’s Forged in Battle is not the first excellent study of Black soldiers and their White officers in the Civil War
admin
2014-09-18
27
问题
Joseph Glatthaar’s Forged in Battle is not the first excellent study of Black soldiers and their White officers in the Civil War, but it uses more soldiers’ letters and diaries—including rare material from Black soldiers—and concentrates more intensely on Black-White relations in Black regiments than do any of its predecessors. Glatthaar’s title ex- presses his thesis: loyalty, friendship, and respect among White officers and Black soldiers were fostered by the mutual dangers they faced in combat.
Glatthaar accurately describes the government’s discriminatory treatment of Black soldiers in pay, promotion, medical care, and job assignments, appropriately emphasizing the campaign by Black soldiers and their officers to get the opportunity to fight. That chance remained limited throughout the war by army policies that kept most Black units serving in rear-echelon assignments and working in labor battalions. Thus, while their combat death rate was only one-third that of White units, their mortality rate from disease, a major killer in this war, was twice as great. Despite these obstacles, the courage and effectiveness of several Black units in combat won increasing respect from initially skeptical or hostile White soldiers. As one White officer put it, "they have fought their way into the respect of all the army. "
In trying to demonstrate the magnitude of this attitudinal change, however, Glatthaar seems to exaggerate the prewar racism of the White men who became officers in Black regiments. "Prior to the war," he writes of these men, "virtually all of them held powerful racial prejudices." While perhaps true of those officers who joined Black units for promotion or other self-serving motives, this statement misrepresents the attitudes of the many abolitionists who became officers in Black regiments. Having spent years fighting against the race prejudice endemic in American society, they participated eagerly in this military experiment, which they hoped would help African Americans achieve freedom and postwar civil equality. By current standards of racial egalitarian-ism , these men’ s paternalism toward African Americans was racist. But to call their feelings "powerful racial prejudices" is to indulge in generational chau- vinism—to judge past eras by present standards.
The passage mentions which of the following as an important theme that receives special emphasis in Glatthaar’ s book?
选项
A、The attitudes of abolitionist officers in Black units.
B、The struggle of Black units to get combat assignments.
C、The consequences of the poor medical care received by Black soldiers.
D、The motives of officers serving in Black units.
E、The discrimination that Black soldiers faced when trying for promotions.
答案
B
解析
哪一点是Glatthaar在其书中特意强调的?五个选项都符合原文中Glatthaar的观点,因此需对应原文找一重点强调的说法。L18appropriately emphasizing,后面的内容应为正确选项。∴B正确。黑人军团为参加战斗的机会而斗争。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/KMtO777K
本试题收录于:
GMAT VERBAL题库GMAT分类
0
GMAT VERBAL
GMAT
相关试题推荐
It’simportanttolocateindustriesinareaswhereasupplyofrawmaterialsis______.
Lookingbackonmychildhood,Iamconvincedthatnaturalistsarebornandnotmade.Althoughwewerebroughtupinthesameway
Ican______youthattheanimalsarewellcaredforinourzoo,soyouneedn’tworryaboutthem.
Withthepossibleexceptionofequalrights,perhapsthemostcontroversialissueacrosstheUnitedStatestodayisthedeathpe
Themulti-billion-dollarWesternpopmusicindustryisunderfire.ItisbeingblamedbytheUnitedNationsforthedramaticris
Atthebeginningoflastcentury,medicalscientistsmadeaninterestingdiscovery:wearebuiltnotjustoffleshandbloodbut
Weallknowthatitispossibleforordinarypeopletomaketheirhomesontheequator(道),althoughoftentheymayfeeluncomfo
Visitorstothezoousuallypitytheanimalsowingtotheirparticularemotionalassociations(联想).Whichanimalsshouldbeindee
Themulti-billion-dollarWesternpopmusicindustryisunderfire.ItisbeingblamedbytheUnitedNationsforthedramaticris
Thosewerethesoldiers______torescuethetrappedminers.
随机试题
2016年12月1日,张某突发疾病去世,留下房屋一处,由其儿子小张继承。2017年2月1日,小张将房屋过户到自己名下。2017年3月1日,小张将房屋出租给李某,双方口头约定租期1年,月租金2000元.并未签订书面合同。2017年7月,小张见房价上涨,主
计算机绘图可分为被动式和交互式。()
莎士比亚,文艺复兴时期英国杰出的戏剧家、诗人。他的四大悲剧是《哈姆雷特》、《奥赛罗》、________、《李尔王》。
观感质量检查项目有()%及以上评为好的,观感质量综合评价为好。
法可以根据不同的标准进行不同的分类,以下()属于法的分类。
戊戌变法是中国近代史上一次重要的政治改革,也是一次思想启蒙运动,促进了思想解放。()
WeneedtofollowtheleadofBritain’sfamiliesandputinthehardworktorenewthecontractbetweenthegenerations.Youdon
有一种木马程序,其感染机制与U盘病毒的传播机制完全一样,只是感染目标计算机后它会尽量隐藏自己的踪迹,它唯一的动作是扫描系统的文件,发现对其可能有用的敏感文件,就将其悄悄拷贝到U盘,一旦这个U盘插入到连接互联网的计算机,就会将这些敏感文件自动发送到互联网上指
Thetimeisaboutfouro’clock,or,tobe______,itisoneandaquarterpastfour.
Children’sideasabouttherainforestsandtheimplicationforcoursedesignA)Adultsandchildrenarefrequentlyconfrontedwi
最新回复
(
0
)