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An absent presence : Japanese Americans in postwar American culture, 1945-1960 / Caroline Chung Simpson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simpson, Caroline Chung, 1963-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- New Americanists.
- New Americanists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese Americans--Government relations.
- Japanese Americans.
- Japanese Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
- Cold War--Social aspects--United States.
- Cold War.
- Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
- United States--Social conditions--1945-.
- United States.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Discusses the social and political disenfranchisement of Japanese Americans after WWII.
- Contents:
- 1. "That Faint and Elusive Insinuation": Remembering Internment and the Dawn of the Postwar
- 2. The Internment of Anthropology: Wartime Studies of Japanese Culture
- 3. How Rose Becomes Red: The Case of Tokyo Rose and the Postwar Beginnings of ColdWar Culture
- 4. "A Mutual Brokenness": The Hiroshima Maidens Project, Japanese Americans, and American Motherhood
- 5. "Out of an Obscure Place": Japanese War Brides and Cultural Pluralism in the 1950s
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612903694
- 9781282903692
- 1282903691
- 9780822380832
- 0822380838
- OCLC:
- 841912865
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