na INLIS000000000004468 20221114014601 0010-0520004468 221114 | | eng 0814736408 eng 940.53 940.53 HOR r Horne, Gerald Race War : White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire / Gerald Horne New York : New York University Press, 2004 xx, 409 p. : : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm this is a book about race and racism within the Btitish Empire in Asia. The focus is on Hong Kong, through the narrative ranges from Fiji and New Zealand to India. the chronology veers from the period leading up to the pacific war, to the war itself and the immediate postwar era. the thesis is simple: an all-encompassing British rasicm-amply bolstered by other European power and particularly by United States-demobilized the colonized, making them highly suspectible to japanese racial appeals. World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area. Caucasian race--Social conditions Pacific Area--Race relations 05148/MKRI-P/I-2008 05148/MKRI-P/I-2008