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Not white enough : the long, shameful road to Japanese American internment - Lawrence Goldstone
Not white enough : the long, shameful road to Japanese American internment - Lawrence Goldstone
"Not White Enough is a legal and political history of anti-Asian bigotry, beginning with the California Gold Rush and ending with the infamous Supreme Court decision that upheld the imprisonment without trial of more than 100,000 innocent Americans on the spurious grounds of national security. The book demonstrates how law and politics bled into each other for decades to enable two-tiered justice, brushing aside Constitutional guarantees of equality under law. Not White Enough examines each of the key Supreme Court decisions-Wong Kim Ark, Ozawa, and Thind, for example-as expressions of political will and not simply jurisprudence. The author chronicles the political history of racism that made Japanese internment almost inevitable, including the key role San Francisco mayors James D. Phelan and Eugene Schmitz, political boss Abe Ruef, and California attorney general Ulysses Webb played in instigating, for political convenience, some of the most egregious anti-Asian legislation"--
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Not white enough : the long, shameful road to Japanese American internment - Lawrence Goldstone
Lawyer, jailer, ally, foe : complicity and conscience in America's World War II concentration camps - Eric L. Muller
Lawyer, jailer, ally, foe : complicity and conscience in America's World War II concentration camps - Eric L. Muller
"In the Japanese American relocation camps of World War II, internees could, on any given day, be both clients and victims of their assigned War Relocation Authority lawyers. The morally ambiguous remit of these attorneys was wide and often contradictory, including overseeing the day-to-day administration of the camps, settling internal disputes between inmates, managing conflict between detainees and their government captors, and providing legal representation for prisoners outside of the camps. In re-creating the daily lives of these WRA attorneys, Eric L. Muller seeks to capture historical subjects as three-dimensional, flawed human beings"--
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Lawyer, jailer, ally, foe : complicity and conscience in America's World War II concentration camps - Eric L. Muller