
These Truly Are the Brave
An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship
University Press of Florida
Published on 30. September 2015
Book
Hardback
464 pages
978-0-8130-6022-4 (ISBN)
Description
From enslaved people who joined Washington's Continental Army and Buffalo Soldiers in the Indian Wars to the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II and black servicemen and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, African Americans have been an integral part of the country's armed forces - even while the nation questioned, challenged, and denied their rights, and oftentimes their humanity.
These Truly Are the Brave collects poems, stories, plays, songs, essays, pamphlets, newspaper articles, speeches, oral histories, letters, and political commentaries, richly contextualizing them within their specific historical moments. This volume offers perspectives onwar, national loyalty, and freedom from a sweeping range of writers that includes Phillis Wheatley, James Weldon Johnson, Natasha Trethewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Lucille Clifton, Michael S. Harper, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many more. Some selectionshere present African Americans embracing wartime service as a way to express citizenship; other selections show black people remaining steadfast in quiet civilian work. Wrestling with their disputed place in American democracy, the courageous writers in this anthology expose and reexamine the foundations of U.S. citizenship.
These Truly Are the Brave collects poems, stories, plays, songs, essays, pamphlets, newspaper articles, speeches, oral histories, letters, and political commentaries, richly contextualizing them within their specific historical moments. This volume offers perspectives onwar, national loyalty, and freedom from a sweeping range of writers that includes Phillis Wheatley, James Weldon Johnson, Natasha Trethewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Lucille Clifton, Michael S. Harper, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many more. Some selectionshere present African Americans embracing wartime service as a way to express citizenship; other selections show black people remaining steadfast in quiet civilian work. Wrestling with their disputed place in American democracy, the courageous writers in this anthology expose and reexamine the foundations of U.S. citizenship.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Florida
United States
Illustrations
4 black & white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
1140 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8130-6022-4 (9780813060224)
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Persons
A. Y. Jimoh is professor of African American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and the author of Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction.
Francoise N. Hamlin is associate professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University, USA and the author of Crossroads at Clarksdale.
Francoise N. Hamlin is associate professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University, USA and the author of Crossroads at Clarksdale.