African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941-1945 - Race, Nationality, and the Fight for Freedom

Dixon provides the first comprehensive study of African American military and social experiences during the Pacific War.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. 'Jim Crow on the run': Black America, Pearl Harbor, and the patriotic imperative; 2. The segregated South Seas: hierarchies of race in the Pacific War; 3. A sexualized South Seas?: intersections of race and gender in the Pacific theater; 4. Nourishing the tree of democracy: Black Americans in White Australia; 5. Behaving like men: race, masculinity, and the politics of combat, 6. Liberators and occupiers: African Americans and the Pacific War aftermath; Conclusion.

About the author

Chris Dixon is Professor of History at Macquarie University, Sydney. His publications include African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century (2000), Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America (1997), and Hollywood's South Seas and the Pacific War: Searching for Dorothy Lamour (with Sean Brawley, 2012).

Summary

This book offers a new perspective of the Pacific War as seen through the experience of African Americans. Chris Dixon explores the relationship between race, American military power, and foreign policy during the Pacific War, paying particular attention to African Americans' attitudes and interactions with other non-white peoples.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Dixon, Chris (Macquarie University Dixon, Dixon Chris
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781107532939
• ISBN: 978-1-107-53293-9
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1940 to c 1949, Black & Asian Studies, HISTORY / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people