From enslaved people who joined Washington's Continental Army to
Buffalo Soldiers in the Indian Wars, from the Tuskegee Airmen of
World War II to black men 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 three centuries of poems,
stories, plays, songs, essays, pamphlets, newspaper articles,
speeches, oral histories, letters, and political commentaries,
richly contextualizing them within their specific historical
moments. This anthology offers perspectives on war, national
loyalty, and freedom from a sweeping range of writers including
Phillis Wheatley, James Weldon Johnson, Natasha Trethewey, W.E.B.
Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston,
James Baldwin, Lucille Clifton, Vievee Francis, Michael S. Harper,
Ann Petry, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many more. Some
selections reveal African Americans embracing wartime service as a
way to express citizenship; others show black people remaining
steadfast in quiet civilian work. Courageously wrestling with their
disputed place in American democracy, these writers expose and
reexamine the foundations of U.S. citizenship
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