African Americans and the Pacific war, 1941-1945 : race, nationality, and the fight for freedom / Chris Dixon, Macquarie University, Sydney.

In the patriotic aftermath of Pearl Harbor, African Americans demanded the right to play their part in the war against Japan. As they soon learned, however, the freedom for which the United States and its allies was fighting did not extend to African Americans. Focusing on African Americans' experie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dixon, Chris, 1960- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > African Americans.
African Americans > Race identity.
Racism > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Armed Forces > African Americans.
African Americans.
Armed Forces > African Americans.
Racism.
United States.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "Jim Crow on the run" Black America, Pearl Harbor, and the patriotic imperative
  • The segregated South Seas: hierarchies of race in the Pacific war
  • A sexualized South Seas?: intersections of race and gender in the Pacific theater
  • Nourishing the tree of democracy: Black Americans in White Australia
  • Behaving like men: race, masculinity, and the politics of combat
  • Liberators and occupiers: African Americans and the Pacific war aftermath.