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Porter, Steward, Citizen - An African American's Memoir of World War I (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Porter, Steward, Citizen - An African American's Memoir of World War I (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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In 1919, Royal Christian privately published a memoir based on his
experiences in World War I. However, the book has been lost to
public knowledge for almost a century. Unlike traditional accounts
of wartime experiences of African American soldiers serving on the
western front in combat regiments or in the various labor
battalions in France, Christian served as a professional valet for
Colonel Moorhead C. Kennedy, the Deputy Director General of
Transportation for the American Expeditionary Forces in Paris and
London during the First World War. This narrative is a remarkable
contribution to the history of African American men participating
in WWI and the unintended consequences of the war in Europe to the
development of the African American community. Pellom McDaniels III
provides a lightly edited and annotated version of Christian's
memoir, supplemented by an extensive introduction and numerous
previously unpublished archival photos and documents. Trip to the
Battlefields of Europe accounts both directly and indirectly for
the challenges African Americans encountered in their efforts to
serve the cause of freedom and democracy. Christian chronicles some
of the inner workings of the American military and how race served
as a barrier to opportunity. In addition, Christian's perspective
as an African American man in Europe both during and after the war
provides a window to the reader of what tens of thousands of black
soldiers witnessed and experienced in their time overseas. Roy's
Trip to the Battlefields of Europe offers a unique perspective on
African American manhood, masculinity, and citizenship, advancing
our understanding of how men like Christian negotiated their
obligations to family, community, and themselves, within a society
that maintained a deep and abiding attachment to the myth of white
supremacy.
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