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Discusses the social and political disenfranchisement of Japanese Americans after WWII.

There have been many studies on the forced relocation and internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. But "An Absent Presence" is the first to focus on how popular representations of this unparalleled episode in U.S. history affected the formation of Cold War culture. Caroline Chung Simpson shows how the portrayal of this economic and social disenfranchisement haunted--and even shaped--the expression of American race relations and national identity throughout the middle of the twentieth century.
Simpson argues that when popular journals or social theorists...