@article{1480132,
      recid = {1480132},
      author = {Horne, Gerald, },
      title = {Race War! : White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the  British Empire /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {Japan's lightning march across Asia during World War II  was swift and brutal. Nation after nation fell to Japanese  soldiers. How were the Japanese able to justify their  occupation of so many Asian nations? And how did they find  supporters in countries they subdued and exploited? Race  War! delves into submerged and forgotten history to reveal  how European racism and colonialism were deftly exploited  by the Japanese to create allies among formerly colonized  people of color. Through interviews and original archival  research on five continents, Gerald Horne shows how race  played a key-and hitherto ignored-;role in each phase of  the war.During the conflict, the Japanese turned white  racism on its head portraying the war as a defense against  white domination in the Pacific. We learn about the reverse  racial hierarchy practiced by the Japanese internment  camps, in which whites were placed at the bottom of the  totem pole, under the supervision of Chinese, Korean, and  Indian guards-an embarrassing example of racial payback  that was downplayed by the defeated Japanese and the  humiliated Europeans and Euro-Americans. Focusing on the  microcosmic example of Hong Kong but ranging from colonial  India to New Zealand and the shores of the U.S., Gerald  Horne radically retells the story of the war. From racist  U.S. propaganda to Black Nationalist open support of  Imperial Japan, information about the effect of race on  U.S. and British policy is revealed for the first time.  This revisionist account of the war draws connections  between General Tojo, Malaysian freedom fighters, and  Elijah Muhammed of the Nation of Islam and shows how white  racism encouraged and enabled Japanese imperialism. In sum,  Horne demonstrates that the retreat of white supremacy was  not only driven by the impact of the Cold War and the  energized militancy of Africans and African-Americans but  by the impact of the Pacific War as well, as a chastened  U.S. and U.K. moved vigorously after this conflict to  remove the conditions that made Japan's success possible.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480132},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814773352.001.0001},
}