St. Patrick's Battalion: America's First Military Intersectionality
- S1E3
- 13:55
- August 29th 2024
VOC Veterans Of Color takes a historical dive into a bunch of warriors who wanted a better life for themselves and others. American military intersectionality goes back to the early 1800s with the formation of the St Patrick's Battalion by many US military men who were poor, Irish, and other European immigrants, Catholics, escaped slaves, freed, and African Americans. They came together with their differences to promote intersectionality in the areas of race, class, and nationality.
* This is a veteran fact checked audio essay with the sources below.
Links
US National Park Service's Recognition of St Patrick's Battalion
https://www.nps.gov/places/the-san-patricio-brigade.htm
The St Patrick's Battalion Narrative
https://aaregistry.org/story/recognizing-the-saint-patricks-battalion/
What is intersectionality, and what does it have to do with me? | YW Boston
https://www.ywboston.org/2017/03/what-is-intersectionality-and-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-me/
Intersectionality Explained
Intersectionality and the individual ecomap
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Veterans of Color
Veterans Of Color Podcast (VOC) a podcast that dives into the cultural and historical realities of people of color within the United States Military.
Join your host, Mike Kim, a veteran and an independent military culture researcher at Columbia University, as he explores the rich contributions, complexities, paradoxes, and challenges of these extraordinary individuals and events often forgotten in military history.
Mike Kim is a psychoanalyst, ex-monk, combat veteran and retired US Department of Veterans Affairs Vet Center site director/lead war trauma readjustment counselor with more than 20,000 clinical hours in facilitating war trauma therapy. He has helped veterans, active/reserve military personnel and their families since the early 1990’s. Mike began his military service in 1986 and he has intermittently served in the U.S. military through 2009.
Mike is a graduate of Norwich University – The Military College of Vermont, Yale University, and the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma. He is passionate about his research in war trauma/readjustment and veteran/military culture from an interdisciplinary cultural studies approach at Teachers College, Columbia University as a doctoral candidate. Google “Mike Kim Veteran” to learn more about war and veteran culture.