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Race and religion animated social, cultural, and political structures during the First World War and these were reflected in both the French Corps expéditionnaire d’Orient (CEO) and the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) that served in France between 1917 and 1920. The appearance in France of thousands of men of color from the colonies and the United States raised issues of race, religion, and gender since these men could not be prevented from mingling with the local populations in factories, on farms, or in rest areas behind the lines. The integration of black American combat units into the French Army highlighted the differences between the claims of French egalitarianism and American segregation, with lasting consequences for French society during and after the war.
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Fogarty, R.S. (2019). A Tale of Two Expeditionary Forces: Religion and Race in the Dardanelles and France. In: Beyerchen, A., Sencer, E. (eds) Expeditionary Forces in the First World War. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25030-0_2
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