Soldiering through Empire

Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific

Simeon Man

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English

University of California Press
26 January 2018

History of the Americas; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Vietnam War

Series: American Crossroads

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.

By: Simeon Man
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 48
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780520283343
ISBN 10: 0520283341
Series: American Crossroads
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 26 January 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 • Securing Asia for Asians: Making the U.S. Transnational Security State 2 • Colonial Intimacies and Counterinsurgency: The Philippines, South Vietnam, and the United States 3 • Race War in Paradise: Hawai‘i’s Vietnam War 4 • Working the Subempire: Philippine and South Korean Military Labor in Vietnam 5 • Fighting “Gooks”: Asian Americans and the Vietnam War 6 • A World Becoming: The GI Movement and the Decolonizing Pacific Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Simeon Man is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

Reviews for Soldiering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific

Soldiering Through Empire is an absolutely essential text for diagnosing, understanding, and resisting the ongoing race war that lies at the very heart of the (neo)liberal capitalist project. From this perspective, radical geographers would be remiss not to read Soldiering Through Empire alongside the work of an emerging cohort of junior scholars in ethnic and American studies that are all, in their own ways, sketching out intellectual and political pathways for confronting and defeating the pernicious forces of racial liberalism. * Society & Space * Offering an alternative view of the war, Man shifts the story's center to the Pacific world, broadening the context so that the Vietnam War is not a discrete event, but a link in a U.S. capitalist-imperialist chain shackling East Asia. * Journal of American-East Asian Relations * Innovative. . . . In a present defined by the militarization of national borders, Man's work can help us see the seeds of dissent sprouting below the barbed wire. * Public Books * This is a wide-ranging, analytically rich and insightful book which does not lose sight of the 'big picture.' * Connections *