In the Shadow of Korematsu

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In the Shadow of Korematsu is written by Eric K. Yamamoto and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190878975 (ISBN 10) and 9780190878979 (ISBN 13).

This book discusses the present-day significance of the Supreme Court's partially discredited, yet never overruled, 1944 decision upholding the constitutional validity of the mass Japanese American exclusion leading to indefinite incarceration. It charts policymakers' and judges' "chameleonic deployment" of the muddled high court ruling alternatively to legitimate or to reject present-day security actions that undercut fundamental rights to freedom, association, religious choice, due process, and equality - rights of immigrants and citizens, protestors and justice organizations, worshippers, and journalists.