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

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Paik, A. Naomi [author.]

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online resource

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9781469628097
1469628090
9781469626321
1469626322
9781469626321

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rightlessness.DDC classification:

345.73/013 23

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KF7225 .P35 2016eb

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Contents:

Internment remains : the 1988 Civil Liberties Act and racism re-formed -- Residues of rightlessness : ghosts and the afterlife of internment -- Just to stay alive : Haitian refugees and Guantánamo's carceral quarantine -- Not a place to live : resisting rightlessness through word and body -- Creating the enemy combatant: performances of justice and realities of rightlessness -- Living in a dying situation: preserving life at Guantánamo -- Conclusion.

Awards:

Asian American Studies Book Award--History, 2018.

Summary: 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.

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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.