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Pages: 242
ISBN: 9781985900288
Pub Date: 05 Jul 2024
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Illustrations: 32 b&w illustrations
Pages: 242
ISBN: 9781985900295
Pub Date: 05 Jul 2024
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Illustrations: 32 b&w illustrations
Description:
In Black Officer, White Navy, Lieutenant Commander Reuben Keith Green shares a compelling and enthralling account of how, as a Black man in the post–Vietnam War era, he navigated his unique career path from high school dropout to unrestricted line officer in the US Navy. Weaving history with personal narrative, Green's engaging, raw, and insightful storytelling style provides an insider's analysis of what was happening within the navy, ultimately exposing systemic racism throughout the US military. Using the "power of the pen," he offers uninhibited accounts of sometimes life-threatening confrontations that resulted from personal and institutional racial bias, describing what it was like to "sail second class" in the navy.