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Book Cover for: The First Strange Place: Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii, Beth L. Bailey

The First Strange Place: Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii

Beth L. Bailey

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As the forward base and staging area for all U.S. military operations in the Pacific during World War II, Hawaii was the "first strange place" for close to a million soldiers, sailors, and marines on their way to the horrors of war. But Hawaii was also the first strange place on another kind of journey, toward the new American society that would begin to emerge in the postwar era. Unlike the rigid and static social order of prewar America, this was to be a highly mobile and volatile society of mixed racial and cultural influences, one above all in which women and minorities would increasingly demand and receive equal status. Drawing on documents, diaries, memoirs, and interviews, Beth Bailey and David Farber show how these unprecedented changes were tested and explored in the highly charged environment of wartime Hawaii.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publish Date: Mar 1st, 1994
  • Pages: 296
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.31in - 6.16in - 0.64in - 0.97lb
  • EAN: 9780801848674
  • Categories: • Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General• United States - 20th Century

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About the Author

Bailey, Beth L.: - Beth Bailey teaches American history and is the director of American Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of The First Strange Place: Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii.
Farber, David: - David Farber teaches American history at barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Chicago '68 and The Age of Great Dreams: American in the 1960s.

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The First Strange Place is in the great tradition of oral history and yet it makes marvelous use of archival records--I was reminded both of Studs Terkel's sensitive ear and of Shelby Foote's sweeping vision.
--Boston Globe

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