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Michael Cullen Green - Black Yanks in the Pacific: Race in the Making of American Military Empire after World War II - 9780801448966 - V9780801448966
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Black Yanks in the Pacific: Race in the Making of American Military Empire after World War II

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Description for Black Yanks in the Pacific: Race in the Making of American Military Empire after World War II Hardback. Series: The United States in the World. Num Pages: 224 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.

By the end of World War II, many black citizens viewed service in the segregated American armed forces with distaste if not disgust. Meanwhile, domestic racism and Jim Crow, ongoing Asian struggles against European colonialism, and prewar calls for Afro-Asian solidarity had generated considerable black ambivalence toward American military expansion in the Pacific, in particular the impending occupation of Japan. However, over the following decade black military service enabled tens of thousands of African Americans to interact daily with Asian peoples—encounters on a scale impossible prior to 1945. It also encouraged African Americans to share many of the same racialized ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
The United States in the World
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801448966
SKU
V9780801448966
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About Michael Cullen Green
Michael Cullen Green received a PhD in American History from Northwestern University. He lives in Chicago.

Reviews for Black Yanks in the Pacific: Race in the Making of American Military Empire after World War II
During the decade following WWII, the US embarked upon two great historical journeys—the civil rights movement and the Cold War. In this brief but thought-provoking study, Green examines the interaction of these two forces through the eyes of African American soldiers stationed in postwar Asia.... A fascinating sidelight is Green's examination of the sad fate of African-Asian offspring left behind. ... Read more

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