Explores how the Vietnam War became a mirror for the struggle of Black Americans—fighting for freedom abroad while demanding equality at home—and a lens through which to understand the racial and political divides that continue to shape American life.
For Wil Haygood, the Black struggle in America and the Vietnam War long have had a strong pull. He was born to be a writer but, what is more, he was born to be one of poets laureate of the Black experience in America.
A sharp-edged account of the disastrous Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of its Black fighters ... In this wide-ranging survey, Haygood relates any number of terrible stories.
