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~4h 24min
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English
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African American Participation
Fiction
Published 1972 Coffee House Press 8 views
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0938410687
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Unknown Binding
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John Alfred Williams

Prolific Mississippi-born writer academic and journalist, who lived & worked primarily in the u.s. northeast. American writer, academic, and journalist. He is best known for his explorations of black identity in his 1967 best-selling novel The Man Who Cried I Am

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The AK-47s were chewing up everything...

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"John A. Williams is exhaustive and accurate in his historical research of the significant role played by African Americans in the military. Captain Blackman is a U.S. soldier in Vietnam who becomes seriously wounded. As he drifts in and out of consciousness he hallucinates back in time as a soldier in each of America's wars from 1775 to 1975."--BOOK JACKET.

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