These Truly Are the Brave

"Powerfully connects the history of war and peace with the long black freedom struggle in the United States, illuminating as never before the relationship between war and citizenship in the African American experience."—Timothy Patrick McCarthy, coeditor of The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition

"A rich, provocative compilation that will stimulate important discussions on African Americans' fraught relationship with the military."—Venetria Patton, editor of Background Readings for Teachers of American Literature

"These primary source documents—poems, pamphlets, oral histories—speak to the black experience of war and citizenship."—Library Journal

"[An] impressive array of readings. . . . This is a volume for anyone seeking to understand the wide diversity of responses to war and citizenship in African American literary history."—Choice

"This anthology is the first of its kind, assembling an impressive array of African American voices on war and citizenship from the colonial period to the present. . . . No other anthology provides such a comprehensive insight into the crucial nexus between war, race, and nation in black history and literature."—American Literary History

"Provides a ready and accessible means to access the frustrations of African Americans trying to reconcile war, American values, and their own place within a racial hierarchy. The expanse of the anthology’s selections attests to the pervasive nature of the issue in African American thought."—H-Net