Rightlessness
Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II
A. Naomi Paik
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 01/2016
Pages: 332
Subject: History, Law
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469628097
DESCRIPTION
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 Guantanamo in the early 1990s, and appeals by Guantanamo's 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 people's lives.