{"product_id":"rise-and-fall-of-americas-concentration-camp-law-9781439917244","title":"Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law","description":"\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 Yet the Act was never enforced before it was repealed in 1971.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMasumi Izumi links the Emergency Detention Act with Japanese American wartime incarceration in her cogent study,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","brand":"Masumi Izumi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51473077109078,"sku":"9781439917244","price":50.57,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9781439917244.jpg?v=1759446632","url":"https:\/\/www.laufgard.com\/products\/rise-and-fall-of-americas-concentration-camp-law-9781439917244","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}