Reviews for The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War

The average rating for The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-03-31 00:00:00 Mary Twiggs pretty good book if you want to read about the pacific slave trade, early US imperialism, the fijian ku klux klan and other stuff like that.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-10-02 00:00:00 Alex Zielinski Interesting approach that centers the Pacific in 19th and 20th century history of U.S. imperial expansion and other European actors. The author explored the diplomatic and social dimensions of white supremacy, including perspectives of beachcombers, ex-navy men, agricultural labor as well as political leaders. The rare insights in regards to gender issues in the Pacific appears here and there. One critique: The role of Japan and its interactions with Hawai'i in the last two chapters appear as too deterministic, making war seem more likely than it was. The author does not take into account the widely divided opinions in Japan as well as in Hawai'i towards the increasingly militant character of the Japanese state in the 1930s-1940s. A student of East Asian history at Yale has recently explored the newspapers of first and second generation Japanese people in Hawai'i during the 1940s and found that their opinions in regards to their role in the Pacific conflict were divided alongside generational lines.