Summary Of Ww2 By Ronald Takaki

Up to this time the position that American soldiers played in World War II has been presented through the views of policy makers, but in this novel Ronald Takaki allows the reader to get the various views of minorities and their position during this time. In the reading, the author gives insight of what was going on in the United States of America while our country’s soldiers were fighting for freedom and inequality of the the Jewish people in Europe.

Battles for equality in our society was on going simultaneously with World War II. Takaki presents the views of different minorities who experience different forms of racism. He tells the story through lives of ethnically diverse citizens such as; the Japanese that was sent to a camp along with his family by his own country, a Navajo code reader which uses his native language to transmit secret messages about the war while his family suffered in poverty on a government reservation, a black solider who was forced to the back of the bus even though he was in uniform, and other different minorities. W.E.B Dubois called this era the war for racial equality. These characters not only struggle with the war but also with racial issues outside of the war.

They fought for the freedom of the Japanese, but this was a contradiction in itself. Americans who are not looked at as equal to White-American fight for the Japanese to be looked at as equal. The novel states that one negreo says to just carve on my tombs tomb here lies a black man killed fighting a yellow man to protect a white man. The negroes of America ask them to prove to them that they are not hypocrites when they say that this war is for freedom. Takaki emphasizes how America believes that these minorities should fight for our country, but still are under white