Race, rights, and reparation
Subtitle: law and the Japanese American internment
By: Eric K. Yamamoto ... [et al.].
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Aspen elective series; Aspen elective series
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; Aspen Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9781454808206
Subjects: Japanese Americans; Civil rights; Legal status, laws; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Restitution
Description: "During World War II, the United States government forced thousands of people of Japanese ancestry to live in internment camps on American soil. Race, Rights and Reparation : Law and the Japanese American Internment was the first text to critically explore the legal, ethical, and social ramifications of their internment - and their subsequent successful movement for reparations in the 1980s. This authoritative Second Edition speaks to today's tension between national security and civil liberties through informative parallels between the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans and individual rights and liberties post-9/11"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-472) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue:; title: Willed concealing, forgetting, remembering and repairing --; title: History --; title: The internment cases --; title: Incarceration : effects and consequences --; title: The coram nobis litigation --; title: Executive and congressional action --; title: Global implications of internment redress -- -- Epilogue:; title: Watchful care over the loaded weapon.