Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire

Index

Index Abbott, Robert: racial discrimination in Lon­ don, vii Abeywickrama, Mr. (a Ceylonese): on Africans eating children, 247–48 Accredited Advertising Agents of Hong Kong: racial reversal by, 321 Afghanistan: Japanese propaganda in, 232 Africa: Japan’s contribution to independence, 326; postwar racial discrimination, 317–18. See also Africans African­American press: Afro­American, 112, 120; Amsterdam News (New York), 51; Cali fornia Eagle (Los Angeles), 50–51; Colored American Magazine, 44; Crisis, 49; news serv­ ice in Japan, 59; Pittsburgh Courier, 49, 111; pro­Japan sentiments, 50–51; on WWII as a race war, 107 African Americans, 43–59; aid to victims of Japanese earthquake (1923), 52; air ace in Sino­Japanese War, 113; alienation among, 52; alliance with Japan, 15, 43, 48–49, 53–54, 55–56; animus toward Japanese soldiers to, 226; anti­white violence, 123; applicability of Tokyo War Crimes Trials, 312–13; in armed forces, 149, 183–84, 220–28, 238–41; Asian Americans among, 113–15; Asians’ fate and theirs, xiii, 43; in Australia, 181–82; benefits from internment of Japanese Amer­ icans, 125–26; Britain and, vii, 94, 106, 236, 347n79; British treatment of, vii, 94; China compared to Japan to, 110–13; Chinese Americans and, 111; in Communist Party, 268; conservatives among, 122–23; doubts about their reliability as soldiers, 43, 222; fictional collaborator with Japanese, 114; Filipino bond presumed, 7, 43–44; first ones seen by Japanese, 8; Hitler as an, 106; Japanese agents among, 57, 113–14, 117; Japanese Americans, relations with, 54, 111; Japanese as role models, 50–51; Japanese husbands, 57; in Japanese internment camps, 220; Japanese military intelligence, 59, 114, 119–20; Japanese propaganda aimed at, xiv, 55, 59, 108, 220–21; Japanese racially tinged attacks on, 329n2; Japanese­ sponsored back­to­Africa movement, 55–56; Japanese­supplied guns, 116; Japan’s advantage among, 59; Japan’s alliance ex­ plained by, 108; Japan’s appeal, vii–viii, xiii, 57–58, 324; job discrimination, 124, 227; London hotels’ treatment of, vii; meetings with Japanese and non­whites, 46, 47, 55–56; in Mexican­Japanese alliance, 53; Nazi Germany to, 105–6, 127; in Plan of San Diego, 277; playing Japanese in kids’ games, 119; pro­Japan sentiments, 43–48, 115–20, 127; revocation of their citizenship, 125; right­wing Europe’s attraction, 126–27; Russo­Japanese War’s effect, 32, 44–45, 49; Singapore’s fall to, 121–22; Sino­Japanese War to, 58, 109–13; soldier’s epitaph, 222; in the South, 1; surveillance of, 47, 53–55; trav­ elers to Japan, 54; travelers to Nazi Ger­ many, 105; using them to deflect criticisms of Jim Crow, 6; vote on backing the war, 105–6; West Coast population, 54; WWII as a race war, 105–8. See also Black nationalists African Methodist Episcopal Church: support for Japan in Russo­Japanese War, 52 Africans: in British armed forces, ix–x, 9, 244–49; in defeating Japanese, 3; distrust of Britons, 241; reluctance to fight Japanese, 14; reports of cannibalism, 247–49; U.S.’s at­ traction to, 239; white supremacy to, 241–43 Afro­American: report of snickering at Ameri­ can defeats, 120; support for Japan in Sino­ Japanese War, 112 Afro­Caribbeans: migration to Harlem, 105 Ah Ting: Communist guerilla, 234 Akira Iriye: on Japanese alliances, 274 Alabama: Grand Guignol of bias, 137 Alabaster, C. Grenville: wartime losses, 285 All India Congress Committee: colonizers to, 214 Ambrose, Stephen: on racism as motivation for war, 270 American Club (Shanghai): Chinese member­ ship, 264 Americans: badges to distinguish black Americans from black Britons, 238; in China, 153; a Chinese American’s hatred for, 141; collaboration with Japan, 311; in in­ ternment camps, 93–95, 96, 98; unpopular­ ity in Britain, 94. See also African Ameri­ cans; Chinese Americans; Euro­Americans; Japanese Americans 379 380 INDEX Amsterdam News (New York): pro­Japan senti­ ments, 51 Anderson, Benedict: Indonesian Communist Party songs, 205 Anderson, J. F.: on anti­white violence, 123 Andrew, Kenneth: on marriage to Chinese women, 28; on relations between U.S. and British sailors, 93; on Sinophobia in prewar Hong Kong, 21 Anti­Mongolian Association: anti­immigra­ tion to Canada, 301 Anti­Semitism: Japan lacking in, 271–72; in New Zealand, 161; victims of, 24 Anti­White Race Movement: Japanese sup­ port for, 55 Anticommunism: in Britain, xiv; in Burma, 202; in Japan, xiv; in postwar Hong Kong, 289–90; pro­Japan sentiments, 187–88, 200–201; in United States, xiv, 56; white su­ premacy and...