My dad also uses the term made famous by Curtis Mayfield’s song from which [Eugene] Smith’s memoir takes its title – Back to the World – to describe his landing in the States and what followed. It had been a hostile world for Black men daring at hope when my dad deployed, and was still so when Smith immigrated to Guyana years later, both men betting on hope and possibility. When they returned on their separate occasions more than a decade apart, the hostility was compounded because they were considered undesirables who were party to, and cause of, the deaths of innocents…