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aThis riveting account of racial turmoil in the U.S. Navy will
be of immense interest to any student of the Navy, the Vietnam War,
the All-Volunteer Force, or race relations in the United
States.a
--Eugenia C. Kiesling, United States Military Academy, West Point,
NY
It is hard to determine what dominated more newspaper headlines
in America during the 1960s and early 70s: the Vietnam War or
Americaas turbulent racial climate. Oddly, however, these two
pivotal moments are rarely examined in tandem.
John Darrell Sherwood has mined the archives of the U.S. Navy
and conducted scores of interviews with Vietnam veterans -- both
black and white -- and other military personnel to reveal the full
extent of racial unrest in the Navy during the Vietnam War era, as
well as the Navyas attempts to control it. During the second half
of the Vietnam War, the Navy witnessed some of the worst incidents
of racial strife ever experienced by the American military.
Sherwood introduces us to fierce encounters on American warships
and bases, ranging from sit-down strikes to major race riots.
The Navyas journey from a state of racial polarization to one of
relative harmony was not an easy one, and Black Sailor, White Navy
focuses on the most turbulent point in this road: the Vietnam War
era.
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