Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans During World War II

by Takashi Fujitani

Book Overview

Race for Empire offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies--of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the United States Army and of Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese military--T. Fujitani examines the U.S. and Japanese empires as they struggled to manage racialized populations while waging total war. Fujitani probes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520280210
• ISBN13: 9780520280212
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.0"