TY - BOOK ID - 80839328 TI - Soldiering through Empire : Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific PY - 2018 SN - 9780520959255 0520959256 9780520283343 9780520283367 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Imperialism KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 KW - Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 KW - Vietnamese War, 1961-1975 KW - History KW - Participation, Asian Americans. KW - Participation, Korean. KW - Participation, Filipinos. KW - Pacific Area KW - United States KW - Asia-Pacific Region KW - Asian-Pacific Region KW - Asian and Pacific Council countries KW - Pacific Ocean Region KW - Pacific Region KW - Pacific Rim KW - History, Military KW - 20th century history. KW - american crossroads series. KW - american empire. KW - american military. KW - american studies. KW - asia. KW - asian americans. KW - civilian contractors. KW - colonial rule. KW - colonialism. KW - decolonialization. KW - democracy. KW - empire. KW - enemy combatants. KW - filipinos. KW - history. KW - korean war. KW - military deployments. KW - military. KW - political alliances. KW - race making. KW - racial liberalism. KW - radical democracy. KW - second world war. KW - soldiers. KW - south korea. KW - suppression. KW - the pacific. KW - the philippines. KW - troops. KW - united states military. KW - vietnam war. KW - vietnam. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80839328 AB - 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. ER -