Black Yanks in the Pacific : : Race in the Making of American Military Empire after World War II / / Michael Cullen Green.
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 bl...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The United States in the World
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 18 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Everyday Racial Politics in a Military Empire
- Chapter 1. Reconversion Blues and the Appeal of (Re)Enlistment
- Chapter 2. The American Dream in a Prostrate Japan
- Chapter 3. The Public Politics of Intimate Affairs
- Chapter 4. A Brown Baby Crisis
- Chapter 5. The Race of Combat in Korea
- Epilogue. Military Desegregation in a Militarized World
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index