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Black Yanks in the Pacific : race in the making of American military empire after World War II
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- Creator
- Michael Cullen Green
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010
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- x, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0801448964, 9780801448966, 9780801462214, 0801462215
- OCLC
- on1083592185, ocn732957187, ocn553364973
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- 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.