The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law av Masumi Izumi

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<DIV><P>The 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 <I>may be </I>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 Yet the Act was never enforced before it was repealed in 1971.</P><P>Masumi Izumi links the Emergency Detention Act with Japanese American wartime incarceration in her cogent study, <I>The Rise and Fall of America’s Concentration Camp Law. </I>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. </P><P>Izumi also shows how political radicalism grew as a result of these laws. Japanese Americas were instrumental in forming grass