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Uniquely Okinawan
Determining Identity During the U.S. Wartime Occupation
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Courtney A. Short
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English
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2020
About this book
Uniquely Okinawan explores how American soldiers, sailors, and Marines considered race, ethnicity, and identity in the planning and execution of the wartime occupation of Okinawa, during and immediately after the Battle of Okinawa, 1945–46.
Describes the reality of what happened on Okinawa in terms of U.S. forces coming to grips with a civilian population whose stance with respect to Americans was not known with certainty prior to the actual campaign.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Courtney A. Short
Courtney A. Short holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and specializes in military, American, and Japanese history, as well as race and identity studies.
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...Uniquely Okinawan is essential reading for anyone studying military-civilian relationships and policy during World War II... a fascinating study that could be easily integrated into graduate-level and professional military education courses.
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This well-researched and organized work addresses how the US armed forces engaged the fraught question of how the Okinawa population would react to the April 1945 US invasion. This is far more than an admirable study of an interesting episode in the Pacific War. It abounds in lessons in planning and then handling encounters with diverse civilian populations caught on a battlefield with US forces.---Richard B. Frank, leading authority on the Asia-Pacific War, and author of Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
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In a meticulously researched study including oral history accounts from both U.S. and Okinawan sources, Short composes a compelling narrative to explore constructions of race and identity amid the wartime and postwar encounters between the American military and Okinawans. The archival evidence she engages with reveals the multi-layered individual stories of a twice-colonized people. Short argues that Okinawan culture permitted the people to reclaim an identity distancing themselves from a defeated imperial Japan, while also negotiating an uneasy relationship with their new American occupiers that continues to evolve.---Annika A. Culver, Associate Professor of East Asian History, Florida State University
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eBook published on:
July 20, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9780823288403
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eBook ISBN:
9780823288403
Keywords for this book
Okinawa; Military Government; Pacific Theater; World War II; U.S. Marines; U.S. Army; U.S. Navy; Identity; Japan; Occupation
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
