Black Yanks in the Pacific : race in the making of American military empire after World War II / Michael Cullen Green

Author:: Green, Michael Cullen, 1977-
Published:: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Physical Description:: x, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Series:

The United States in the world

Contents:

Introduction : everyday racial politics in a military empire -- Reconversion blues and the appeal of (re)enlistment -- The American dream in a prostrate Japan -- The public politics of intimate affairs -- A brown baby crisis -- The race of combat in Korea -- Epilogue : military desegregation in a militarized world.

Summary:

"By the end of World War II, many black citizens viewed service in the segregated American armed forces with distaste if not disgust. Meanwhile, domestic racism and Jim Crow, ongoing Asian struggles against European colonialism, and prewar calls for Afro-Asian solidarity had generated considerable black ambivalence toward American military expansion in the Pacific, in particular the impending occupation of Japan. Over the following decade, however, military service enabled tens of thousands of African Americans to interact daily with Asian peoples

Subject(s):

African American soldiers—Japan—History—20th century
African American soldiers—Korea—History—20th century
Korean War, 1950-1953—Participation, African American
United States—Armed Forces—African Americans—History—20th century
Japan—History—Allied occupation, 1945-1952
United States—Race relations—History—20th century

ISBN:

9780801448966 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801448964 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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