African American Experience in Vietnam

Brothers in Arms

von James E. Westheider

216 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 community.

• Reihe: The African American Experience Series
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Militärgeschichte Besondere Kriege und militärische Feldzüge Konflikte nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
• ISBN: 9780742545328
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.07.2007
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers