If We Must Die: African American Voices on War and Peace
If We Must Die is a narrative and compilation of commentaries by African American leaders, intellectuals, and average citizens on wars fought by the United States. The book uses the rich material of political and social commentary as it seeks to articulate the concerns, mood, and memory of African Americans in the context of global political realities.\ Organized chronologically, by America's major wars, If We Must Die offers an impressively wide array of viewpoints from such diverse figures...
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If We Must Die is a narrative and compilation of commentaries by African American leaders, intellectuals, and average citizens on wars fought by the United States. The book uses the rich material of political and social commentary as it seeks to articulate the concerns, mood, and memory of African Americans in the context of global political realities. Organized chronologically, by America's major wars, If We Must Die offers an impressively wide array of viewpoints from such diverse figures as Molly Pitcher, Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Paul Robeson, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama, and more.
Ch. 1 Revolutionary War: My Liberation, Your Freedom 9Ch. 2 War of 1812: From the Plantation to the Battlefield 29Ch. 3 Civil War: One Shot Away from Emancipation 49Ch. 4 Spanish-American and Philippines-American Wars: Is This a White Man's War? 77Ch. 5 World War I: The Strange Fruit of War 103Ch. 6 World War II: Fighting for "Our America" 137Ch. 7 Korean War: Coming In from the Cold 179Ch. 8 Vietnam War: Red, White, Black and Blue 209Ch. 9 Persian Gulf War: Civil Rights, Human Wrongs 257Ch. 10 Iraq War: Patriot Games 297Index 355
\ CHOICEThis volume collects an impressively diverse array of African American thought and rhetoric on the major wars of the U.S. . . . Stanford has performed an outstanding service with this volume. . . . Essential.\ \ \ \ \ ChoiceThis volume collects an impressively diverse array of African American thought and rhetoric on the major wars of the U.S. . . . Stanford has performed an outstanding service with this volume. . . . Essential.\ \
