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The African American experience in Vietnam [electronic resource] : brothers in arms / James E. Westheider

Author:
Westheider, James E., 1956-
Published:
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (218 pages).
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Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; Chapter 1 African Americans in the Armed Forces before Vietnam; Chapter 2 American Involvement in Vietnam and the Draft; Chapter 3 The Black Military Experience in the Vietnam Era; Chapter 4 Antiwar Sentiment and Black Disillusionment; Chapter 5 Racial Violence in the Military and the Military Response; Chapter 6 Vietnamization and Going Home; Appendixes; Documents; Bibliographic Essay; Index; About the Author.
Summary:
In this book James E. Westheider explores the social and professional paradoxes facing African-American soldiers in Vietnam. Service in the military started as a demonstration of the merits of integration as blacks competed with whites on a near equal basis for the first time. Yet as the war in Vietnam progressed, many black recruits felt isolated and threatened in an institution controlled almost totally by whites. Consequently, many blacks no longer viewed the military as a professional opportunity, but an undue burden on the black communi.
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ISBN:
9780742569515 (electronic bk.)
0742569519 (electronic bk.)
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