Rightlessness (eBook)

Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II

A. Naomi Paik (Autor)

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2016
332 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2632-1 (ISBN)

Infos

In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. Removed from the social and political communities that would guarantee fundamental legal protections, these detainees are effectively rightless, stripped of the right even to have rights. Rightless people thus expose an essential paradox: while the United States purports to champion inalienable rights at home and internationally, it has built its global power in part by creating a regime of imprisonment that places certain populations perceived as threats beyond rights. The United States' status as the guardian of rights coincides with, indeed depends on, its creation of rightlessness.Yet rightless people are not silent. Drawing from an expansive testimonial archive of legal proceedings, truth commission records, poetry, and experimental video, Paik shows how rightless people use their imprisonment to protest U.S. state violence. She examines demands for redress by Japanese Americans interned during World War II, testimonies of HIV-positive Haitian refugees detained at Guantnamo in the early 1990s, and appeals by Guantnamos enemy combatants from the War on Terror. 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 peoples lives.

Autor

A. Naomi Paik is associate professor of criminology, law, and justice and global Asian studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.1.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in United States Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in United States Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 4 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1988 Civil Liberties Act • Abu Ghraib • barack obama • Binyam Mohammed • Border studies • Boumediene v. Bush • Camp Bulkeley • Camp Delta • Camp X-Ray • Center for Constitutional Rights • Citizenship • Cold War civil rights • Combatant Status Review Tribunals • Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians • comparative ethnic studies • Critical Legal Studies • critical race theory • Cultural Politics • detainee/detention • Detainee Treatment Act • detention/ • detention/detainee • enemy combatant • force-feeding of hunger strikers • Geneva Conventions • George W. Bush • Guantanamo • Haitian Centers Council v. McNary • Haitian Centers Council v. Sale • Haitian refugees • Hamdan v. Rumsfeld • HIV/AIDS and Haiti/Haitian people • Human Rights • hunger strikes among prisoners • Immigration • Immigration and Naturalization Services • imprisonment/prisons/prisoner • Janice Mirikitani • Japanese American Citizens’ League • Japanese American internment • Jean Bertrand Aristide • John Yoo • Krome Detention Center • migrant interdiction • Mike Masaoka • military commissions • Military Commissions Act • Omar Khadr • prisoner resistance • Rasul v. Bush • Rea Tajiri • Salim Hamdan • September 11, 2001 • social death • statelessness • Testimonio • Testimony • the Haitian Program • Torture • truth commissions • UNHCR • U.S.-Afghanistan war • U.S. civil rights • U.S.-Cuba relations • U.S. empire • U.S.-Haitian relations • U.S. imperialism (especially in the Caribbean) • U.S.-Iraq War • U.S. neoliberalism • U.S. racism • U.S. refugee policy (Cold War) • U.S. torture memos • War on Terror
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-2632-2 / 1469626322
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2632-1 / 9781469626321