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Soldiering through Empire

Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvSimeon Man

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In the decades after World War II, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilian contractors across Asia and the Pacific found work through the U.S. military. Recently liberated from colonial rule, these workers were drawn to the opportunities the military offered and became active participants of the U.S. empire, most centrally during the U.S. war in Vietnam. Simeon Man uncovers the little-known histories of Filipinos, South Koreans, and Asian Americans who fought in Vietnam, revealing how U.S. empire was sustained through overlapping projects of colonialism and race making. Through their military deployments, Man argues, these soldiers took part in the making of a new Pacific world-a decolonizing Pacific-in which the imperatives of U.S. empire collided with insurgent calls for decolonization, producing often surprising political alliances, imperial tactics of suppression, and new visions of radical democracy.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-01-26
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAmerican Crossroads
Antal sidor272
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520283343

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1 • Securing Asia for Asians: Making the U.S. Transnational Security State2 • Colonial Intimacies and Counterinsurgency: The Philippines, South Vietnam, and the United States3 • Race War in Paradise: Hawai‘i’s Vietnam War4 • Working the Subempire: Philippine and South Korean Military Labor in Vietnam5 • Fighting “Gooks”: Asian Americans and the Vietnam War6 • A World Becoming: The GI Movement and the Decolonizing PacificConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"Soldiering Through Empire is an absolutely essential text for diagnosing, understanding, and resisting the ongoing race war that lies at the very heart of the (neo)liberal capitalist project. From this perspective, radical geographers would be remiss not to read Soldiering Through Empire alongside the work of an emerging cohort of junior scholars in ethnic and American studies that are all, in their own ways, sketching out intellectual and political pathways for confronting and defeating the pernicious forces of racial liberalism."