Black Yanks in the Pacific: Race in the Making of American Military Empire After World War II

by Michael Cullen Green

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801448964
• ISBN13: 9780801448966
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher