Fighting Tradition - A Marine's Journey to Justice

Determined to be a U.S. Marine Corps officer, Bruce Yamashita enrolled in Officer Candidate School, where he was the target of persistent racial harassment by officers and staff. After enduring nine weeks of emotional and physical abuse, Yamashita was "disenrolled" in April 1989-kicked out of the Marine Corps because of the color of his skin. Fighting Tradition is Yamashita's own story of his courageous struggle to expose a pattern of racial discrimination against minorities that has existed at various levels of the Corps. With the support of a broad coalition of community and civil rights organizations, the Hawai'i-born law school graduate fought a five-year-long legal, political, and media battle against the military establishment that ended in his commissioning as a captain and the revision of Marine Corps policies and procedures.

Summary

This work is Bruce Yamashita's own story of his courageous struggle to expose a pattern of racial discrimination against minorities that has existed at various levels of the US Marine Corps. It aims to contribute to our understanding of the complexities of institutional racism.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce I Yamashita, Bruce I. Yamashita
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2003
• EAN: 9780824824105
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-2410-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 221 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Series: Intersections: Asian and Pacif; Intersections: Asian and Pacif
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration