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

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:United States in the world.
Main Author: Green, Michael Cullen, 1977-
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
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.
Physical Description:x, 207 pages : illustrations.
Format: Book
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.