War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War

This is the story of how race and racism was ever present and highly important in the Allied War in the Pacific during World War 2. The depth of hatred toward the Japanese is a disturbing and overlooked aspect of a war and a generation that have been so venerated. It's definitely worth a look, the racist vintage cartoons are especially telling. This book examines the important role that racial...more

This is the story of how race and racism was ever present and highly important in the Allied War in the Pacific during World War 2. The depth of hatred toward the Japanese is a disturbing and overlooked aspect of a war and a generation that have been so venerated. It's definitely worth a look, the racist vintage cartoons are especially telling. This book examines the important role that racial othering had on U.S. and Japanese war policies during World War 2. The visceral racism displayed in such U.S. publications as Leatherneck will turn the stomach of any consciounce person who hates racism. The reality that at the end of World War 2, the actuall fighting was quickly becoming a racially based nearly genocidal struggle shows how this part of the War was more like the Eastern Front in Europe than the fighting on the Western Front.    hide