{"product_id":"rise-and-fall-of-americas-concentration-camp-law","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\u003etaken 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 Yet the Act was never enforced before it was repealed in 1971.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMasumi Izumi links the Emergency Detention Act with Japanese American wartime incarceration in her cogent study,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\u003eShe 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\u003eis a timely study in this age of insecurity where issues of immigration, race, and exclusion persist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54247405781336,"sku":"9781439917244","price":68.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781439917244_2a09374d-f343-48b9-83bc-8c589990ce4a.jpg?v=1777799743","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/rise-and-fall-of-americas-concentration-camp-law","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}