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Winner of the 2022 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in LiteraryStudies
Introduction1. "Democracy within the Teeth of Fascism": The Black POW and the Invisible War at Home in Ralph Ellison's War Writings2. Revolution from Above: ¿e Kenzabur¿, the Black Airman, and Occupied Japan3. A Blueprint for Occupied Japan: Miné Okubo and the American Concentration Camp4. Possessive Investment in Ruin: The Target, the Proving Ground, and the U.S. War Machine in the Nuclear Pacific5. People's War, People's Democracy, People's Epic: Carlos Bulosan, U.S. Counterintelligence, and Cold War Unreliable Narration6. The Enemy at Home: Urban Warfare and the Russell Tribunal on Vietnam7. Militarized Queerness: Racial Masking and the Korean War Mascot