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Author:

Green, Michael Cullen, 1977-

Title:

Black Yanks in the Pacific : race in the making of American military empire after World War II / Michael Cullen Green.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

x, 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United States--History--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--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

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.

Series:

The United States in the world.

ISBN:

0801448964 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801448966 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)553364973

LCCN:

2010008556

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)