![]() ![]() He urges that the full scope of the war cannot be understood without considering the role of Black Americans. ![]() Delmont offers a necessary corrective to this largely overlooked history with his lively, meticulously-researched chronicle of the war from the African American perspective, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad (Viking). Since then, most mainstream books, newspapers, magazines, and movies about the war have largely ignored or obscured the contributions of Black Americans in the military and on the home front.Īcclaimed Dartmouth Professor Matthew F. ![]() More than a million African American men and women served the United States during World War II. Delmont, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad. Every day brought new evidence that they were fighting for a country that did not regard them as fully human. Throughout the war, Black Americans expressed outrage that they were fighting to secure freedom on far-flung battlefields while being denied freedom in their own country. Professor Matthew Delmont (Photo by Eli Burakian) ![]()
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