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

Published Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 207 pages) : illustrations Series The United States in the world United States in the world. 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject African American soldiers -- Japan -- History -- 20th century African American soldiers -- Korea -- History -- 20th century Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Participation, African American HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. African American soldiers Armed Forces -- African Americans Military participation -- African American Race relations SUBJECT United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069508 United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Subject Japan Korea United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780801462214 0801462215

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