If We Must Die: African American Voices on War and PeaceKarin L. Stanford Rowman & Littlefield, 2008 - 373 من الصفحات If We Must Die is a narrative and compilation of commentaries by African American leaders, intellectuals, and average citizens on wars fought by the United States. The book uses the rich material of political and social commentary as it seeks to articulate the concerns, mood, and memory of African Americans in the context of global political realities. Organized chronologically, by America's major wars, If We Must Die offers an impressively wide array of viewpoints from such diverse figures as Molly Pitcher, Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Paul Robeson, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama, and more. |
المحتوى
Introduction | |
Revolutionary War My Liberation Your Freedom 17751783 | 7 |
War of 1812 From the Plantation to the Battlefield 18121815 | 27 |
Civil War One Shot Away from Emancipation 18611865 | 47 |
SpanishAmerican and PhilippinesAmerican Wars Is This a White Mans War?18981902 | 75 |
World War I The Strange Fruit of War 19141918 | 101 |
World War II Fighting for Our America 19411945 | 135 |
Korean War Coming In from the Cold 19501953 | 177 |
Vietnam War Red White Black and Blue 19561975 | 207 |
Persian Gulf War Civil Rights Human Wrongs 1991 | 255 |
Iraq War Patriot Games 2003PRESENT | 295 |
Source Acknowledgments | 347 |
Index | 353 |
| 371 | |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
action administration African Ameri African American African American soldiers armed forces army attack battle became Black Panther Party Black soldiers bombs British Bush's called campaign Carter citizens civil rights Clinton Colin Powell colored Communist Congress crisis death declared defense democracy Democratic discrimination economic election Elijah Muhammad enlist federal fight fought freedom George H. W. Bush Henry McNeal Turner Herbert Aptheker History Hitler Hussein Iraq Iraqi Jackson Jesse Jackson Johnson justice killed King Korea Kuwait land leaders Liberation Lynch March ment million Minh NAACP Negro North officers organization peace percent Philippines political Powell President Bush Press protest race racial racism regiment Reprinted Revolutionary Roosevelt Secretary segregation served slavery slaves South Vietnam Southern Soviet struggle tion U.S. government U.S. military U.S. policy Union United Nations University Viet Vietnam War Vietnamese violence vote W. E. B. Du Bois Washington weapons women York