@booklet {10221, title = {Jacob{\textquoteright}s Ladder. A Novel}, year = {1987}, month = {1987}, publisher = {Thunder{\textquoteright}s Mouth Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is about a fictitious African country that has won its freedom and has a leader who is struggling, with some success,\  to bring a better life to the people while avoiding the dystopia that corruption and neocolonialism that had undermined such efforts in most actual African countries at the time.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015)} } @booklet {9666, title = {Captain Blackman}, year = {1973}, note = {

Rpt. with an \“Introduction\” by Alexs Pate (i-ix). Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2000

}, month = {1973}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Most of the novel is concerned with the experiences of African Americans in the U. S. military, specifically in Vietnam. It ends, though with two brief scenes, the first of depicting white officers planning to eliminate African Americans from the military. The second depicts the failure of the plan because African Americans have slowly established themselves in Africa, where they were free from surveillance and have gradually taken control of U. S. nuclear weapons and their delivery systems. The first scene is intended to be the culmination of the dystopian experience of African Americans in the military; the second is intended to be the first step to a better society.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015)} } @booklet {2270, title = {Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light: A Novel of Some Probability}, year = {1969}, note = {

Rpt. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1999. U.K. ed. London: Eyre \& Spottiswoode, 1970. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1973,

}, month = {1969}, publisher = {Little, Brown}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Near future racial conflict in the U.S. when African Americans begin to fight back. Presented as a positive development.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015)} } @booklet {2097, title = {The Man Who Cried I Am}, year = {1967}, month = {1967}, publisher = {Little, Brown and Co.}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Commentary on the racial situation in the U.S. in the form of a fictionalized biography of the writer Richard Wright (1908-60) plus the fictional Central Intelligence Agency plan called the King Alfred Plan for future control of African Americans by cordoning them off from the rest of the country. Many African Americans came to believe in the reality of the plan, which mirrored some actual proposals.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015)} }