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A review by saidtheraina
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone
4.0
This had been sitting in my maybe-read-to-booktalk pile for years, and I'm so glad I finally cracked it!
It's full of primary source material, including interviews with some of the actual people involved and photos from their family photo albums. The information is presented well, like a coffee-table book, and Stone writes engagingly.
Since this book is by a white author and was written a handful of years ago, I was looking for examples of problematic lens stuff (granted, I know I'm not the best person to do that), and only found a few instances of things that I feel like would have been written differently now or by an author not holding white privilege.
I took this out (virtually) to both high school and middle school class visits in 2020-2021. It's an amazing story that deserves to be told.
It's full of primary source material, including interviews with some of the actual people involved and photos from their family photo albums. The information is presented well, like a coffee-table book, and Stone writes engagingly.
Since this book is by a white author and was written a handful of years ago, I was looking for examples of problematic lens stuff (granted, I know I'm not the best person to do that), and only found a few instances of things that I feel like would have been written differently now or by an author not holding white privilege.
I took this out (virtually) to both high school and middle school class visits in 2020-2021. It's an amazing story that deserves to be told.