Race, Place, and Historic Moment
Race, Place, and Historic Moment
Black and Japanese American World War II Veterans: The GI Bill of Rights and the Model Minority Myth
This chapter presents a comparative history of minority communities, in this case the impact of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (better known as the GI Bill of Rights). It addresses the reasons why Japanese American World War II veterans were able to make greater use of the benefits offered by the law to broker their group's postwar social advancement, while black veterans were restricted in their enjoyment of its advantages. In addition to more potent discrimination against blacks in areas such as housing, one salient distinction between the groups that the chapter points to is their differing educational preparation, which led to comparatively greater use by Japanese Americans of the college benefits available under the bill.
Keywords: minority communities, Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, GI Bill of Rights, Japanese American veterans, black veterans, postwar social advancement, discrimination
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