The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law - Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s (Hardcover)

The Emergency Detention Act, Title II of the Internal Security Act of 1950, is the only law in American history to legalize preventive detention. It restricted the freedom of a certain individual or a group of individuals based on actions that may be taken that would threaten the security of a nation or of a particular area. Yet the Act was never enforced before it was repealed in 1971. Masumi Izumi links the Emergency Detention Act with Japanese American wartime incarceration in her cogent study, The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law. She dissects the entangled discourses of race, national security, and civil liberties between 1941 and 1971 by examining how this historical precedent generated "the concentration camp law" and expanded a ubiquitous regime of surveillance in McCarthyist America. Izumi also shows how political radicalism grew as a result of these laws. Japanese Americas were instrumental in forming grassroots social movements that worked to repeal Title II. The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law is a timely study in this age of insecurity where issues of immigration, race, and exclusion persist.

General

Imprint:	Temple University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Asian American History & Cultu
Release date:	September 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Masumi Izumi
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	274
ISBN-13:	978-1-4399-1724-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > Citizenship & nationality law > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions > Women In Power > Books
LSN:	1-4399-1724-8
Barcode:	9781439917244

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