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African Americans and Women in WWII During the Second World War little pressure was placed upon American society to rethink gender and racial stereotypes. Mainstream white American assumptions concerning race and gender limited both the numbers and roles of African Americans and women employed in the American Army Air Force during the Second World War. African Americans faced a severe racial ideology attributing them with physical and mental deficiencies, cowardice and natural subservience, according to William Alexander Percy’s article “Jim Crow and Uncle Sam: The Tuskegee Flying Units and the U.S. Army Air Forces in Europe during World War II”, in The Journal of Military History . Women faced gender stereotyping similar to that of the racial ideology, and in conjunction with cultural fears of women alone with men in an aircraft and the possible effect of menstruation on a woman’s ability to perform her duty, as stated in a lecture by John Morrow and Reina Pennington to Norwich Uni...