African American Vietnam Autobiographies

Coming Home (1971) by George Davis, De Mojo Blues (1985) by A. R. Flowers, Shaw's Nam (1986) by John Cam, Captain Blackman (1972) by John A. Williams, Runner Mack (1972) by Barry Beckham, and Fallen Angels (1988) by Walter Dean Myers--only the first three of which were written by Vietnam veterans. There are but four war-centered collections of poetry by African American survivors of Vietnam: Dien Cai Dau (1988) by Yusef Komunyakaa, Between a Rock and a Hard Place (1977) and In the Grass (1995) by Horace Coleman, and Mad Minute (1990) by Lamont B. Steptoe. In addition, there are two oral histories: Wallace Terry's Bloods (1985) and Brothers: Black Soldiers in the Nam (1985), which Clark Smith assembled from taped interviews of two black veterans, Stanley Goff and Robert Sanders. (Provided by Jeff Loeb in "MIA: African American autobiography of the Vietnam War." African American Review. Spring 1997.)