"Brenda Moore gives us such an eye-opening look at the racialized genderings of World War II--the war we think we know so much about and yet, in fact, are just beginning to really grasp in all its complexity. Furthermore, using in-depth narratives and exploring Japanese American women's prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences, Moore reminds us that any war is a heady mix of state manipulation, popular anxieties, and individual women's own subtle forms of agency. This a book for right now." --Cynthia Enloe, author of Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives...

I would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list to serve overseas]. We were going to do our duty. Despite all the bad things that happened, America was our home. This is where I was born. It was where my mother and father were. There was a feeling of wanting to do your part.
--Gladys Carter, member of the 6888th

To Serve My Country, to Serve my Race is the story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit composed of African-American women to serve overseas.
While African-American men and white women were invited, if belatedly,...

I would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list to serve overseas]. We were going to do our duty. Despite all the bad things that happened, America was our home. This is where I was born. It was where my mother and father were. There was a feeling of wanting to do your part.
--Gladys Carter, member of the 6888th

To Serve My Country, to Serve my Race is the story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit composed of African-American women to serve overseas.
While African-American men and white women were invited, if belatedly,...