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"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"--

World War, 1939-1945 --- Nationalism --- Racism --- Imperialism --- Participation, Japanese American. --- Participation, Korean. --- Social aspects --- History --- allied forces. --- america and asia. --- america and japan. --- asia and war. --- asia pacific modern. --- asia pacific war. --- asian american studies. --- asian empire. --- asian history. --- asian studies. --- cultural anthropology. --- cultural studies. --- eastern asia studies. --- enemy combatants. --- history. --- japanese americans. --- japanese colonialism. --- japanese historians. --- japanese history. --- japanese imperialism. --- korean historians. --- korean history. --- korean war history. --- military drama. --- us historians. --- us history. --- war and battles. --- war and racism. --- war in asia. --- wwii history.