Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment (Elective Series)

The balance between civil liberties and national security is scrutinized in this, the first comprehensive course book ever published to critically explore the legal, ethical, and social ramifications of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the successful reparations movement of the 1980s.The book features:an outstanding author team - all are noted scholars in this and other fields of lawa rich pedagogy that includes thematic overviews, socio-historic background, in-depth study modules, cases, original documents and photographs, questions, and commentaryan interdisciplinary approach that includes scholarship from sociology and history as well as law review articles and casesa discussion of how areas of law construct race and how political and social contexts shape and influence the lawissues of tremendous contemporary significance - such as the treatment of Arab-Americans during wartime and the prosecution of Chinese-American scientist Wen Ho Lee for espionageanalysis of the impact of Japanese-American redress on African-American reparations claimsA Teacher's Manual that includes:guidance for teaching each chaptersuggestions for how to make optimal use of study manualsexplanations and analysis that address questions raised in the bookEric K. Yamamoto is the author of 'Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment (Elective Series)', published 2001 under ISBN 9780735523937 and ISBN 0735523932.