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

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

"In Black Yanks in the Pacific, Michael Cullen Green tells the story of African American engagement with military service in occupied Japan, war-torn South Korea, and an emerging empire of bases anchored in those two nations. After World War II, African Americans largely embraced the socioecono...

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Main Author: Green, Michael Cullen, 1977- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Series:United States in the world.
Subjects:
1900-1999
African American soldiers > Japan > History > 20th century.
African American soldiers > Korea > History > 20th century.
Korean War, 1950-1953 > Participation, African American.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
African American soldiers
Armed Forces > African Americans
Military participation > African American
Race relations
United States > Armed Forces > African Americans > History > 20th century.
Japan > History > Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Japan
Korea
United States
History
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Table of 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.

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