Black Americans are disproportionately overrepresented in the US military

Evidence

Blacks are now 42 percent of the Army, 32 percent of the Navy and 25 percent of the Air Force. Black women represent about 33 percent of all the women in the services. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1831

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to discussions of the military as an equal-opportunity employer versus a racialized labor channel — echoes debates in class and race stratification literature.