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The History of the Women's Army Corps in WWII

World War, 1939-1945 --- Women. --- United States. --- History. --- WAC --- W.A.C. (Women's Army Corps) --- Women's Army Corps (U.S.)

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Following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America's declaration of war on Japan, the U.S. War Department allowed up to five hundred second-generation, or "Nisei," Japanese American women to enlist in the Women's Army Corps and, in smaller numbers, in the Army Medical Corps. Through in-depth interviews with surviving Nisei women who served, Brenda L. Moore provides fascinating firsthand accounts of their experiences. Interested primarily in shedding light on the experiences of Nisei women during the war, the author argues for the relevance of these experiences to larger questions of American race relations and views on gender and their intersections, particularly in the country's highly charged wartime atmosphere. Uncovering a page in American history that has been obscured, Moore adds nuance to our understanding of the situation of Japanese Americans during the war.

Japanese American women soldiers --- Japanese-American women --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Women, Japanese American --- Women --- Women soldiers, Japanese American --- Women soldiers --- History. --- Participation, Japanese American. --- United States. --- WAC --- W.A.C. (Women's Army Corps) --- Women's Army Corps (U.S.) --- United States --- Ethnic relations. --- Japanese American women

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"In 1945, four African American female privates who were members of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) participated in a strike at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, and opted to take a court martial rather than accept discriminatory work assignments. As the army prepared for the court-martial and civil rights activists investigated the circumstances, competing commentaries in African American and mainstream newspapers ignited a passionate public response across the country. Indeed, the insurrection, now little remembered, became the most publicized and recorded protest of Black WACs during World War II as story of how four African American women pushed the army's segregation system to its breaking point.Drawing on relevant scholarship, archival work, newspaper responses to the strike, and interviews with the strikers or their families, Sandra Bolzenius shows how the strike at Ft. Devens demonstrates that army regulations prioritized white men, segregated African Americans, highlighted white women's femininity, and overlooked the presence of African American women. In drawing attention to these issues, this book is able to shed light on the experiences and agency of World War II Black WACs who resisted racial discrimination and asserted their entitlements as female military personnel, analyze military policies and their effects on Army personnel, particularly Black WACs, and investigate the Army's determination to maintain the existing social order through the strict segmentation of its troops based on race, gender, and rank."--Provided by publisher.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Sex discrimination against women --- Race discrimination --- Women soldiers --- African-American soldiers --- Strikes and lockouts --- Trials (Military offenses) --- Court martial trials --- Courts-martial and courts of inquiry --- Military offenses --- Combinations of labor --- Lockouts --- Work stoppages --- Direct action --- Labor disputes --- Strikebreakers --- African American military personnel --- Afro-American soldiers --- Negro soldiers --- Negroes as soldiers --- Soldiers, African American --- Soldiers --- Women as soldiers --- Women in the military --- Bias, Racial --- Discrimination, Racial --- Race bias --- Racial bias --- Racial discrimination --- Discrimination --- Discrimination against women --- Subordination of women --- Women, Discrimination against --- Feminism --- Sex discrimination --- Women's rights --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Women --- History --- Participation, African-American. --- United States. --- WAC --- W.A.C. (Women's Army Corps) --- Women's Army Corps (U.S.) --- History. --- Fort Devens (Mass.) --- Camp Devens (Mass.)