{"product_id":"the-rise-and-fall-of-americas-concentration-camp-law-civil-liberties-debates-from-the-internment-to-mccarthyism-and-the-radical-1960s-hardcover","title":"The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law: Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMasumi Izumi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003emay be\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Yet the Act was never enforced before it was repealed in 1971.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMasumi Izumi links the Emergency Detention Act with Japanese American wartime incarceration in her cogent study, \u003ci\u003eThe Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law.\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIzumi 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely study in this age of insecurity where issues of immigration, race, and exclusion persist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMasumi Izumi\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor of North American Studies in the Department of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 274\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 20, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53827389227283,"sku":"9781439917244","price":100.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6300\/3667\/files\/K2xaZ25yeUNCNXlpbGFXNWJHeWdGUT09.webp?v=1771304135","url":"https:\/\/finduslaw.com\/products\/the-rise-and-fall-of-americas-concentration-camp-law-civil-liberties-debates-from-the-internment-to-mccarthyism-and-the-radical-1960s-hardcover","provider":"FindUSlaw Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}