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Race for empire

Takashi Fujitani

2011

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 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 demonstrates that the United States and Japan became increasingly alike over the course of the war, perhaps most tellingly in their common attempts to disavow racism even as they reproduced it in new ways and forms.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: 20th century / allied forces / america and asia / america and japan / Americans / Asia / asia and war / asia pacific modern / asia pacific war / asian american studies / asian empire / asian history / asian studies / cultural anthropology / cultural studies / eastern asia studies / Empires / enemy combatants / HISTORY / HISTORY / Asia / General / Imperialism / Imperialism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century / Imperialism -- United States -- History -- 20th century / Japan / Japanese / japanese americans / japanese colonialism / japanese historians / japanese history / japanese imperialism / Korea / korean historians / korean history / korean war history / Koreans / military drama / Nationalism / Nationalism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century / Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century / Participation, Japanese American / Participation, Korean / Racism / Racism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century / Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century / Social aspects / South Korea / U.S.A / United States / us historians / us history / War / war and battles / war and racism / war in asia / World War Two / World War, 1939-1945 / World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese American / World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Korean / World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Japan / World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- United States / wwii history
• ISBN: 0520262239, 9780520262232, 9780520950368, 0520950364