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1 online resource (x, 207 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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The United States in the world
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United States in the world.
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| Summary |
"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 socioeconomic opportunities afforded by service overseas despite the maintenance of military segregation into the early 1950s while strained Afro-Asian social relations in Japan and South Korea encouraged a sense of insurmountable difference from Asian peoples. By the time the Supreme Court declared de jure segregation unconstitutional in its landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, African American investment in overseas military expansion was largely secured. Although they were still subject to discrimination at home, many African Americans had come to distrust East Asian peoples and to accept the legitimacy of an expanding military empire abroad"--Publisher's description. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Allied Occupation of Japan (Japan : 1945-1952) |
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Korean War (1950-1953) |
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African American soldiers -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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African American soldiers. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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African American soldiers -- Korea -- History -- 20th century.
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Korea. |
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Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Participation, African American.
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United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century.
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United States. |
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Armed Forces. |
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African Americans. |
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Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Race relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Green, Michael Cullen, 1977- Black Yanks in the Pacific. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010 9780801448966 (DLC) 2010008556 (OCoLC)553364973 |
| ISBN |
9780801462214 (electronic book) |
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0801462215 (electronic book) |
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9780801448966 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0801448964 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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