If We Must Die: African American Voices on War and Peace (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780742541146)

If We Must Die is a narrative and compilation of commentaries by African American leaders, intellectuals, and average citizens on wars fought by the United States. The book uses the rich material of political and social commentary as it seeks to articulate the concerns, mood, and memory of African Americans in the context of global political realities. Organized chronologically, by America's major wars, If We Must Die offers an impressively wide array of viewpoints from such diverse figures as Molly Pitcher, Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Paul Robeson, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama, and more.


Author: Karin L. Stanford
ISBN-10: 0742541142
ISBN-13: 9780742541146
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2009
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2009