Black Yanks in the Pacific : Race in the Making of American Military Empire after World War II /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Green, Michael Cullen, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations
Military participation > African American
Armed Forces > African Americans
African American soldiers
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Militaires noirs americains > Coree > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Militaires noirs americains > Japon > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Korean War, 1950-1953 > Participation, African American.
African American soldiers > Korea > History > 20th century.
African American soldiers > Japan > History > 20th century.
United States
Korea
Japan
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Japon > Histoire > 1945-1952 (Occupation alliee)
États-Unis > Forces armees > Noirs americains > Histoire > 20e siecle.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Japan > History > Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
United States > Armed Forces > African Americans > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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