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Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy Hardcover – November 1, 2001 1 Often badly reasoned; confused analysis of tabular data; occasionally marred by error Amazon C*** This book might be worth purchasing on the basis that it collects some interesting anecdotes. But as a treatment of its subject, I cannot recommend it either to amateur students of history or to scholars. It contains some interesting parts, such as a discussion of the prisoner exchange cartel and its racial ramifications. But all in all, it is a tedious read and does not repay the effort. Most fundamentally, Ramold fails to satisfy the burden of supporting the key claim expressed in his introduction, that Negro sailors met with significantly less racism and oppression in the navy than in the army, and that the navy, with certain faults, was more or less fair in its treatment of Negro sailors. Only later in history, he argues, did really serious racism emerge in the navy. One key argument that Ramold makes to support this is that those Negroes who served on commissioned warships were exposed to hazards of combat equally with their Caucasian counterparts. That is true, but he overlooks that Negroes were assigned disproportionately to support vessels and navy yards, and that on all types of vessels, they were disproportionately assigned to menial roles. On commissioned warships, for example, Negroes often were made heavers (of coal into fireboxes) or stewards. Ramold also argues, in a long chapter, that court martial records show that navy justice treated Negroes equally with Caucasians. That perhaps is to be expected, given the extreme formality of court martial proceedings, and that Negro sailors were nominally equal to Caucasian ones. But the vast bulk of navy justice was not dispensed at courts martial, but informally by ship's officers. Ramold omits to consider that punishment at this level may well have fallen more severely upon Negro sailors (though evidence on this point must surely be very scant). It would have been useful to learn if things went any different in army courts martial, but Ramold is silent on that subject. Strangely, he dwells at some length on the severity of informal punishment in the army, but doesn't seem to recognize that punishments of comparable severity were informally applied in the navy. In a chapter on Negro sailors in combat, Ramold observes that 8 of 307 Medals of Honor awarded to sailors went to Negro recipients. He then passes on! But since, conservatively, Negroes constituted eight percent of personnel on commissioned warships, fully 24 Medals of Honor, three times the number actually awarded, would have been expected to go to Negro sailors! Far from supporting the main argument of this book, this key statistic undermines it. No doubt it reflects both the assignment of Negroes to roles unlikely to offer distinction in combat and a lack of recognition of legitimate achievements by Negro sailors. In two long chapters, one on naval enlistment and one on naval courts martial, Ramold acceptably relies on key data sets collected elsewhere. He reports extensively, but confusedly and almost randomly, various percentages of this and that and the other thing. There never seems to be a coherent argument, but only a light tripping from one subject to another, and with very little explanation of its context, significance or possible causation. Very disconcertingly, one finds in the footnotes numerous reports of chi-square and anova significance levels, without Ramold making at all clear what hypotheses are being tested, what are the null hypotheses, or what numbers went into any given test. Therefore, as a scientific analysis of these two important sets of data, the work fails utterly. Given the work's popular emphasis, the tests should have been omitted, or if included, there should have been extensive numeric appendices to support them. The work is occasionally marred by errors of fact. On page 29, it is claimed that the Constitution establishes death as the penalty for treason; in fact, it leaves the penalty to the discretion of Congress. On page 42, it says that "enlistees generally joined the navy at a relatively small number of navy yards on the East Coast," but this was true only before the war (in fairness, this is clarified later in the work, but that information would undermine the argument of this page). On page 49, the army "had relatively few African American combat personnel," a very peculiar remark indeed. On page 95 it is oddly said, after the previous paragraph listed the relatively varied and sumptuous rations of the average sailor, that "navy diet varied only slightly from that issued to army troops." On page 96, the "frozen beef" that is alleged to have been carried by certain support vessels could not have been available before the invention of frozen food in 1930; at best, chilled beef could have been supplied. On page 105, it says that John V. Lauderdale was a "doctor attached to the Mississippi Squadron," and it cites one of his remarks as evidence of good medical care supplied by the navy; in fact, Lauderdale was a doctor contracted to the U.S. Army, and the boat on which he served, the "D.A. January," was a U.S. Army hospital boat. On page 106 in a discussion of navy medicines, it oddly says, "Navy drug treatments were so effective that scurvy, an ailment usually associated with the navy, was a greater burden to the army"; but of course, scurvy is not treated with medicine, but with nutrition. On page 108, it says that steam condensers "distilled" water, the excess of which was available for consumption; but condensers did not distil water, and water was not normally drawn from condensers to drink, on account of its being contaminated with engine oil (also condensers were not used on the western waters, where non-condensing engines were almost universal, and where water was normally drunk straight from the rivers). On page 165 the term "hog chain" is equated with "anchor chain"; but a hog chain was instead a series of iron rods, connected by turnbuckles, used to brace the hull of a vessel fore-and-aft. 1508809674 US
Xero to Sixty Paperback – April 9, 2015 5 Thank you, Arthur. Tommy *** It's flattering to be asked to review a book, unless the author is a good friend, in which case it’s terrifying, unless the book is awesome, in which case the pressure’s off, and I can lead by saying thank you, Arthur, for writing this book. I read “Xero to Sixty” six weeks ago, during three late afternoons, on a beach in Hawaii. So yeah, I was predisposed to enjoy it. But my goodness, I had Xero in my head for a week. And I was delighted by his companionship. What would Xero have had to say about that kooky lady in the rainforest selling “horse coconuts?” How would Xero’s brush have painted these divine sunsets? Xero’s narrative voice is an efficient blend of academic prowess and last century’s street slang, with an eye on what matters. I grew fond of the paragraphs where I was being led somewhere, but I didn’t know where, or care, because I had learned in only a few pages to trust the driver. In this paragraph, Xeno tells us more about Judy, a coworker at the circus, and he ends his reflection with one of my favorite lines in the book. EXCERPT: We had become friends but in a way I did not understand. We spent hours working together but separately like children in parallel play in a schoolyard. We lunched at the same times but someone also seemed to sit between us. We walked along the same straw-strewn paths but always in different directions. She would smile at me, nod, bat her eyes, look away ' the link seemed never to be made but the allure was always there, beckoning, rich with tension. If I hadn’t been such a dweeb, I’d have known. I bet Tony did… and Doris. It’s been Oracled and Delphied. But not me… For I, whisper, whisper this quietly, do not leak this to anyone, not Harlan, not Frankie, and not Dickless, but the richly monikered Xerxes Theodore Konstantakis had yet to dip his stick into the engine oil. END EXCERPT Here’s a typical description that does so much more: “Bobby Joe was wearing his good ol' boy act like it was a rubbed up moleskin jacket draped round his compact, muscular shoulders.” And here’s a paragraph about Xero and Bobby Joe selling encyclopedias door to door in 1960. Note how the long sentences, by their very construction, take us back. EXCERPT: The whole continent seemed to have been tilted, migrants obeying the tug of some strange kind of gravity. They needed houses with bassinettes and cribs, they needed cars with fins, had to have Good Housekeeping Seal'ed ranges and fridges and we knew, me an' Bobby Joe, that they also will need words, knowledge, facts, dates and names, to be told of wars, who started 'em, fought 'em, won 'em and got to write the one true history. They need to be linked with Sputnik and the bomb, with Barbie, and the creeping commies, with Fidel and Ike and Khrushchev and de Gaulle and Starkweather and Van Allen and everything new and scary. We were the bringers of the word and we were tooling down the road in a second-hand green Chevy with a wobbly right rear wheel. END EXCERPT. One measure of a book is was it engaging? Another is did it change me? Yes and yes. As to that second thing… About himself, Xero said, “I was slipping down the social ladder and the humor of it seemed lost on all but me.” Xero smiles at the world all the way through this book. Granted, he’s looking back on events that weren’t necessarily a bucket of yuks when they happened. But the smile is there, in the reflective Xero, and in the young adventurer. And I’ve been carrying that smile with me since Hawaii. Xero sees circuses wherever he goes, and now I‘m doing the same. B0000AY60A US
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