The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law / Paperback

The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s  By Masumi Izumi. 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 may be 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 Yet the Act  was never enforced before it was repealed in 1971.  The author 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.   Izumi also shows how political radicalism grew as a result of these laws. Japanese Americans were instrumental in forming grassroots social movements that worked to repeal Title