Black Yanks in the Pacific [electronic resource] : race in the making of American military empire after World War II / Michael Cullen Green.
Series: United States in the worldPublication details: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2010.Description: x, 207 p. : illISBN:- 9780801448966 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801448964 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801462214 (e-book)
- African American soldiers -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
- African American soldiers -- Korea -- History -- 20th century
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Participation, African American
- United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century
- Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- 940.54/03 22
- E185.63 .G725 2010eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.