VIRTUAL LECTURE: Michiko (Midge) Ayukawa Commemorative Lecture

Presentation via Zoom

The general public is invited to the Michiko (Midge) Ayukawa Commemorative Lecture: Discussing new publications on the Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Canadian Internment and Dispossession. The event will feature book presentations by Masumi Izumi (Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan) and Jordan Stanger-Ross (University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada).

ABOUT THE BOOKS

Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians (Edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross)

In 1942, the Canadian government forced more than 21,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. They were told to bring only one suitcase each and officials vowed to protect the rest. Instead, Japanese Canadians were dispossessed, all their belongings either stolen or sold. The definitive statement of a major national research partnership, Landscapes of Injustice reinterprets the internment of Japanese Canadians

The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law: Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s (Masumi Izumi)

The Emergency Detention Act, Title II of the Internal Security Act of 1950, is the only law in American history to legalize preventive detention. It restricted the freedom of a certain individual or a group of individuals based on actions that may be taken that would threaten the security of a nation or of a particular area. Yet the Act was never enforced before it was repealed in 1971. Masumi Izumi links the Emergency Detention Act with Japanese American wartime incarceration in her cogent study, The Rise and Fall of America’s Concentration Camp Law.