The First Strange Place

Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii

By: Beth L. Bailey, David Farber

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Paperback | 14 May 1994

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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.

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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.""

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Non-Fiction History General & World History Regional & National History History of the Americas Specific Events & Topics in History Oral History Military History Second World War Social & Cultural History Australasian & Pacific History Biographies & True Stories

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Prologue: December 7, 1941	p. 1
Introduction: Wartime Hawaii and American Identity	p. 15
Into the War Zone	p. 31
Culture of Heroes	p. 63
Hotel Street Sex	p. 95
Strangers in a Strange Land	p. 133
Fragile Connections	p. 167
Epilogue	p. 211
Notes	p. 217
Acknowledgments	p. 255
Index	p. 259
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