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.
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