{"product_id":"these-truly-are-the-brave-an-anthology-of-african-american-writings-on-war-and-citizenship-hardcover","title":"These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eA. Yemisi Jimoh\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eFrançoise Hamlin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQBR Phillis Wheatley Book Award in Nonfiction - Finalilst\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom enslaved people who joined Washington's Continental Army to Buffalo Soldiers in the Indian Wars, from the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II to black men 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThese Truly Are the Brave\u003c\/i\u003e collects three centuries of poems, stories, plays, songs, essays, pamphlets, newspaper articles, speeches, oral histories, letters, and political commentaries, richly contextualizing them within their specific historical moments. This anthology offers perspectives on war, national loyalty, and freedom from a sweeping range of writers including Phillis Wheatley, James Weldon Johnson, Natasha Trethewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Lucille Clifton, Vievee Francis, Michael S. Harper, Ann Petry, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many more. Some selections reveal African Americans embracing wartime service as a way to express citizenship; others show black people remaining steadfast in quiet civilian work. Courageously wrestling with their disputed place in American democracy, these writers expose and reexamine the foundations of U.S. citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Yemisi Jimoh\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of African American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of \u003ci\u003eSpiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction: Living In Paradox\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eFrançoise N. Hamlin \u003c\/b\u003eis associate professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University and the author of \u003ci\u003eCrossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 584\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.44 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450638188722,"sku":"9780813060224","price":145.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/79f582410692640e8067bcaddd84232f.webp?v=1778788072","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/these-truly-are-the-brave-an-anthology-of-african-american-writings-on-war-and-citizenship-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}