Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II

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...