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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.

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.

Author/Creator:

Green, Michael Cullen, 1977-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Black Yanks in the Pacific: race in the making of American military empire after World War II [by Green, M.C.]

Related Series:

United States in the world

Subjects:

United States — Armed Forces — African Americans — History — 20th century

African American soldiers — Japan — History — 20th century

African American soldiers — Korea — History — 20th century

Japan — History — Allied occupation, 1945-1952

Korean War, 1950-1953 — Participation, African American

United States — Race relations — History — 20th century

Allied Occupation of Japan (Japan : 1945-1952)

Korean War (1950-1953)

1900-1999

African American soldiers

Race relations

Armed Forces — African Americans

Japan

Korea

United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

E185.63 .G725 2010eb

ISBNs:

9780801462214 (electronic bk.)
0801462215 (electronic bk.)
9780801448966 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]
0801448964 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 40018355876

OCLC Numbers:

732957187

Other Control Numbers:

EBC3138207 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp6137630