TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fujitani,Takashi
TI  - Race for empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II 
T2  - Asia Pacific modern
SN  - 9780520262232 (hbk.)
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Berkeley, CA.
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Participation, Japanese American
KW  - Participation, Korean
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Japan
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Racism
KW  - Imperialism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-468) and index
N2  - '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'--
ER  -