The African American Experience in Vietnam: Brothers in Arms

by James E. Westheider

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742545326
• ISBN13: 9780742545328
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"