| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

The Brothers' Vietnam War: Black Power, Manhood, and the Military Experience. By Herman Graham III. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. x, 179 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2646-6.)

Although President Harry S. Truman ordered the American military's desegregation in 1948, it took six years to achieve full integration; therefore, the Vietnam War was the first American war fought with fully integrated units. Strangely, despite the staggering level of scholarly attention given to that war, few studies exist on the African American experience in Vietnam. Herman Graham III seeks to fill (at least partly) this interpretive lacuna by emphasizing black soldiers' perceptions of their own masculinity and the way those perceptions fueled the appeal of black power ideals.

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