Title:
The rise and fall of America's concentration camp law : civil liberties debates from the internment to McCarthyism and the radical 1960s
Author:
Izumi, Masumi, 1966- author.
ISBN:
9781439917244
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Physical Description:
xi, 253 pages ; 24 cm.
Series:
Asian American history and culture
Asian American history and culture.
General Note:
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Dōshisha University. Graduate School of American Studies, 2003) issued under title: Japanese American internment and the Emergency Detention Act (Title II of the Internal Security Act of 1950), 1941-1971 : balancing internal security and civil liberties in the United States.
Contents:
Introduction : yhe Emergency Detention Act : a "concentration camp law" -- Alienable citizenship : race, loyalty and the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans -- Legalizing preventive detention : passage of the Emergency Detention Act of 1950 -- The shifting ground of civil liberties : McCarthyism, the FBI and the Supreme Court in the age of concentration camps -- Quiet Americans no more : expansion of political dissent and the grassroots campaign to repeal Title II -- Recommitting to civil liberties : the legislative process of Title II repeal -- Conclusion : a new age of concentration camps?
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