Race for Empire Koreans As Japanese and Japanese As Americans During World War II

Name: Race for Empire Koreans As Japanese and Japanese As Americans During World War II
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ISBN: 9780520280212

ISBN-10: 0520280210

ISBN-13: 9780520280212

Edition: 2013

Authors: Takashi Fujitani

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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 governmental policies and analyzes representations of these soldiers--on film, in literature, and in archival documents--to reveal how characteristics of racism, nationalism, capitalism, gender politics, and the family changed on both sides. He…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/20/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 520
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

T. Fujitaniis Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the editor ofPerilous Memories: The Asia Pacific War(s)and is the author ofSplendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan(UC Press).