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ANNOUNCING THE PUBLICATION OF
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Race, Rights
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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.
“The time has come for talk of the law, the morality and the politics of redress in law school classes and this is the ideal book for it. This revised
edition shows how the movement for redress for those interned by our government during World War II inspired other global redress movements
including those for Native Hawaiians, African Americans and victims of sex slavery during World War II, among many other groups, and also shows
the crucial lessons of internment for the war on terror.”
—Alfred Brophy, Judge John J. Parker, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
“Unearth, confront, repair or leave an unhealed world to your children. Thanks to books like this one, we can see the choice.”
—Mari Matsuda, Professor of Law, University of Hawai’i, William S. Richardson School of Law
Race, Rights, and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment, Second Edition features:
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ccessible and authoritative writing from an outstanding author team of noted scholars in this and
other fields of law, with detailed endnotes providing a reliable portal to additional inquiry
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wealth of interdisciplinary materials including essays and primary sources such as oral histories,
litigation documents and photographs
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ew and expanded chapters linking the wartime internment cases and Japanese American redress
to contemporary issues of post-9/11 national security and civil liberties, and to global reparations and
reconciliation initiatives
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pdates to the continuing scholarship, jurisprudence and the legacy of the wartime and coram nobis
internment cases, including the implications of the Japanese American experience for current groups
affected by the war on terror
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ynamic pedagogy—thematic overviews, socio-historical background, in-depth notes, carefully edited
cases, original documents as well as incisive questions and commentary
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