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The rise and fall of America's concentration camp law : civil liberties debates from the internment to McCarthyism and the radical 1960s / Masumi Izumi.
Van Pelt Library KF4850.A328195 I995 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Izumi, Masumi, 1966- author.
- Series:
- Asian American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Emergency Detention Act of 1950.
- United States.
- Internal security--Law and legislation--United States--History--20th century.
- Internal security.
- Political crimes and offenses--Law and legislation--United States--History--20th century.
- Political crimes and offenses.
- Detention of persons--United States--History--20th century.
- Detention of persons.
- Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
- Japanese Americans.
- Internal security--Law and legislation.
- History.
- Political crimes and offenses--Law and legislation.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 253 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2019.
- 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?
- Notes:
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Edition:
- Revision of: 9784750329338. Izumi, Masumi, 1966- Tōkyō : Akashi Shoten, 2009.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Izumi, Masumi, 1966- author. Rise and fall of America's concentration camp law
- ISBN:
- 9781439917244
- 1439917248
- OCLC:
- 1079401324
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