... and eventually full independence. This concluding chapter takes readers up to the moment of independence in March 1956 and shows how the decolonization and postcolonial state-building process unfolded in the context of longstanding conflicts over sovereignty that had predated the war and contributed...

... a governing logic that emerged globally in the post-1945 age of decolonization. The introduction lays out the book’s central arguments by explaining three important concepts: the “decolonizing Pacific,” “soldiering,” and “race war.” It situates the book within Asian American history and U.S. history...

...The conclusion summarizes the major arguments of the book and explains the multiple legacies of the decolonizing Pacific since the 1970s. It describes the militarization of U.S. foreign policy and permanent war that continued in the 1980s and into the present, as well as the ways that the U.S...

... 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...

... study of nationalism and decolonization and an anthropological exploration of the gendering of wartime experience, this is also an inquiry into the work of storytelling, both as memory practice and ethnographic genre....

... that we can read thinking black as an extensive and important project in the effort to decolonize Britain and build a fairer, more equal, and more democratic society out of Britain’s imperial past. Baldwin James Gregory Dick West Indian Students Centre Gilroy Paul Hall Stuart immigration legislation...

...) the particularization of Japanese imperialism and colonialism are different and unique, highlighting the interrelationship and interdependency of the Japanese case with the generality of global capitalist colonialism; and (2) the lack of the decolonization process in the separation of the Japanese Empire has prevented...

... an alternative to the racial state, and especially the development of a decolonization framework. It explains how the lack of attention to settler colonialism hinders the analysis of race and white supremacy developed by scholars who focus on race and racial formation. It also challenges the manner in which...

... formation” was a prime concern of postcolonial and national studies from the 1950s onwards. Its frame of inquiry arose from decolonization, a process that had turned employees of colonial states into statesmen of free “nations.” Acculturation British Empire Colonial bureaucracy Dual Mandate The Lugard...

...This chapter examines labor movements in postwar French Africa and analyzes the dialectics of decolonization. It describes the transition of the French West African labor movement from a class-centered, internationalist organization from about 1945 to 1955 to a nationalist organization...

...The epilogue traces the lengthy and ongoing process of Seoul's decolonization. This process began shortly after liberation, when Koreans forced Japanese officials to destroy Namsan's Shintō shrines, which were subsequently replaced with anticolonial monuments of the new nation. Exactly fifty years...

...Many people of color in Britain “became black” in the 1960s. This transformation occurred in reaction to the apparent consolidation of British politics around a revived whiteness and through the resonance within Britain of U.S. Black Power and Caribbean and African secondary decolonization...

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... imperial past. Thinking Black reveals black radical Britain’s wide cultural-political formation, tracing it across new institutions of black civil society and connecting it to decolonization and black liberation across the Atlantic world. A new history of black activism that retells...

... in the British and French empires depended on an elaborate security apparatus. It shows for the first time the crucial role of intelligence gathering in maintaining imperial control in the years before decolonization....