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Author Fujitani, Takashi, author.

Title Race for empire : Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II / T. Fujitani.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 488 pages) : illustrations, maps.
text file
Series Asia Pacific modern ; 7
Asia Pacific modern ; 7.
Note "A Philip E. Lilienthal book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-468) and index.
Contents pt. 1. From vulgar to polite racism. 1. Right to Kill, Right to Make Live: Koreans as Japanese -- 2. "Very Useful and Very Dangerous": The Global Politics of Life, Death, and Race -- pt. 2. Japanese as Americans. 3. Subject to Choice, Labyrinth of (Un)freedom -- 4. Reasoning, Counterreasonings, and Counter-conduct -- 5. Go for Broke, the Movie: The Transwar Making of American Heroes -- pt. 3. Koreans as Japanese. 6. National Mobilization -- 7. Nation, Blood, and Self-Determination -- 8. The Colonial and National Politics of Gender, Sex, and Family.
Summary "Race for Empire offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies--of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the United States Army and of Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese military--T. Fujitani examines the U.S. and Japanese empires as they struggled to manage racialized populations while waging total war. Fujitani probes governmental policies and analyzes representations of these soldiers--on film, in literature, and in archival documents--to reveal how characteristics of racism, nationalism, capitalism, gender politics, and the family changed on both sides. He demonstrates that the United States and Japan became increasingly alike over the course of the war, perhaps most tellingly in their common attempts to disavow racism even as they reproduced it in new ways and forms"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject World War (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Korean.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Japan.
Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Nationalism.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Nationalism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Japan.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Racism.
Racism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Imperialism -- History -- 20th century.
Imperialism.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Racism.
Other Form: Print version: Fujitani, Takashi. Race for empire. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011 9780520262232 (DLC) 2011019924 (OCoLC)712114157
ISBN 9780520950368 (electronic book)
0520950364 (electronic book)
9780520262232 (hardback)
0520262239 (hardback)
Standard No. 9786613520593