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We Return Fighting - World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity (Hardcover)
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We Return Fighting - World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R554
Discovery Miles 5 540
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A richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in
World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their
lives and their communities after they returned home. This stunning
book presents artifacts, medals, and photographs alongside powerful
essays that together highlight the efforts of African Americans
during World War I. As in many previous wars, black soldiers served
the United States during the war, but they were assigned to
segregated units and often relegated to labor and support duties
rather than direct combat. Indeed this was the central paradox of
the war: these men and women fought abroad to secure rights they
did not yet have at home in the States. Black veterans' work during
the conflict--and the respect they received from French allies but
not their own US military--empowered them to return home and
continue the fight for those rights. The book also presents the
work of black citizens on the home front. Together their efforts
laid the groundwork for later advances in the civil rights
movement. We Return Fighting reminds readers not only of the
central role of African American soldiers in the war that first
made their country a world power. It also reveals the way the
conflict shaped African American identity and lent fuel to their
longstanding efforts to demand full civil rights and to stake their
place in the country's cultural and political landscape.
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