Rightlessness :: testimony and redress in U.S. prison camps since World War II /

In this work, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of US prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. In doing so, she reveals a powerful ongoing contest over the nature and meaning of the law, over civil liberties and global human rights, and over the...

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1. Verfasser: Paik, A. Naomi (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Schriftenreihe:Studies in United States culture.
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Zusammenfassung:In this work, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of US prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. In doing so, she reveals a powerful ongoing contest over the nature and meaning of the law, over civil liberties and global human rights, and over the power of the state in people's lives.
Beschreibung:Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - Yale University, 2009) issued under title: Testifying to rightlessness : redressing the camp in narratives of U.S. culture and law.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Auszeichnungen:Asian American Studies Book Award--History, 2018.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469628097
1469628090
9781469626321
1469626322

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