| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Lorraine K. Bannai |
Taking the Stand: the Lessons of Three Men Who Took the Japanese American Internment to Court |
4 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 1 (Fall/Winter 2005) |
The internment notice came out, and it burned me up, you know. Here I am, an American, and I have to go to internment camp. I was really upset. And I said I'm not going to go. I'm an American and that's what I am and I'm going to stay that way. - Fred Korematsu In the fall of 1941, Glenn Miller and the big bands were on the airwaves, Joe DiMaggio... |
2005 |
| Gil Gott |
The Devil We Know: Racial Subordination and National Security Law |
50 Villanova Law Review 1073 (2005) |
SINCE September 11, Muslims, Arabs and South Asians in the United States have had to contend with disparate and abusive treatment, both within civil society and at the hands of state actors including security, law enforcement and prison officials. It would seem a horrible exaggeration to say that post-September 11 has been a period of open season... |
2005 |
| Roy L. Brooks |
The Slave Redress Cases |
27 North Carolina Central Law Journal 130 (2005) |
I. Introduction. 131 II. Forced Labor Litigation. 133 A. Overview. 133 B. Japanese Forced Labor Litigation. 134 C. Nazi Forced Labor Litigation. 141 1. Princz v. Federal Republic of Germany. 141 2. In re Nazi Era Cases Against German Defendants Litigation. 144 III. Japanese American Removal and Internment. 146 A. Executive Order 9066. 146 B.... |
2005 |
| Jerry Kang |
Watching the Watchers: Enemy Combatants in the Internment's Shadow |
68-SPG Law and Contemporary Problems 255 (Spring 2005) |
Punish him, yes. But please try to understand the defense's point of view that there is a corporate responsibility. -- Lawyer for Ivan Chip Frederick, court-martialed for his crimes at Abu Ghraib We are fighting an indefinite war on terror. In considering the policy and practice of this war, the history of the Japanese American internment looms... |
2005 |
| Daniel Ahn |
Profiling Culture: an Examination of Korean American Gangbangers in Southern California |
11 Asian Law Journal 57 (May, 2004) |
Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn and Police Chief William Bratton have declared war on Southern California's street gangs. The gang problem, they argue, is insidious and should be considered a national problem akin to terrorism. The parallel between gangs and terrorism is instructive, for profiling is a controversial yet significant issue for both.... |
2004 |
| Karen K. Narasaki, Vincent A. Eng, Terry M. Ao, National Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Mark A. Packman, Attorney of Record, Jonathan M. Cohen, Robert Thoron Taylor, Joel E Greer, Gilbert Heintz, Randolph |
Brief of Amici Curiae National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, Asian Law Caucus, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, et Al. , in Support of Respondents in Barbara Grutter, Petitioner, V. Lee Bollinger, et Al., Respondents and Jennifer Gratz, et |
10 Asian Law Journal 295 (May, 2003) |
The National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC) is a national, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to advance the legal and civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans. NAPALC is committed to supporting affirmative action as a way of ensuring equal opportunities for women and minorities. Joining NAPALC as amici curiae... |
2003 |
| Daisy Ha |
An Analysis and Critique of Kiwa's Reform Efforts in the Los Angeles Korean American Restaurant Industry |
8 Asian Law Journal 111 (May, 2001) |
Although many people are aware, through the efforts of organizations and media attention, of the miserable working conditions facing Asian Americans in garment industry sweatshops, less visible are other arenas in which Asian American workers also face similar plights. One such example is the restaurant industry in Los Angeles' Koreatown. Since... |
2001 |
| Linda Chen Einsiedler, M.A. and Todd A. DeMitchell, Ed.D. % |
Affirmative Action and the Model Minority in Higher Education Admissions: a Conundrum for Asian Americans |
131 West's Education Law Reporter 877 (March, 1999) |
It is by now well understood . that our society cannot be completely colorblind in the short term if we are to have a colorblind society in the long term. After centuries of viewing through colored lenses, eyes do not quickly adjust when the lenses are removed. Associate General Contractors of Massachusetts v. Altschuler (1973) Government can never... |
1999 |
| Janine Young Kim |
Are Asians Black?: the Asian-american Civil Rights Agenda and the Contemporary Significance of the Black/white Paradigm |
108 Yale Law Journal 2385 (June, 1999) |
The phrase civil rights movement evokes the powerful words and images of the mass movement by Black Americans in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. In recent years, however, Asian Americans have increasingly laid claim to a place in the history of the struggle for civil rights. Just as Derrick Bell harkens back to Dred Scott v. Sanford... |
1999 |
| By Harvey Gee |
Asian Americans, Law, and Illegal Immigration in Post-civil Rights America: a Review of Three Books Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-state, by Robert S. Chang, New York University Press, 1999 Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants |
77 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 71 (Fall 1999) |
Presently, the social science and legal literature on Asian Americans are growing at an impressive rate. Accordingly, three recently published volumes have emerged to expand the analysis of Asian American social and legal issues. First, Peter Kwong, chair of the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College in New York, demonstrates his... |
1999 |
| HARVEY GEE |
Beyond Black and White: Selected Writings by Asian Americans Within the Critical Race Theory Movement |
30 Saint Mary's Law Journal 759 (1999) |
I. Introduction. 760 II. Critical Race Theory. 764 III. History of Discrimination Against Asian Americans: Nativism and the Racialization of Asian Americans As Foreign. 769 IV. Asian-American Contributions to the Critical Race Movement. 773 A. Constructing Asian-American Identities During the Exclusion Era. 776 B. Contemporary Discrimination... |
1999 |
| Richard P. Cole, Gabriel J. Chin |
Emerging from the Margins of Historical Consciousness: Chinese Immigrants and the History of American Law |
17 Law and History Review 325 (Summer, 1999) |
During the past generation legal histories of Chinese immigrants who came to America during the second half of the nineteenth century have reshaped our view of their significance for the history of American law. The preceding three generations of professional legal historians perceived the legal experience of Chinese immigrants as marginal to the... |
1999 |
| Reviewed by Harvey Gee |
Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-immigrant Impulse in the United States, Edited by Juan F. Perea. New York: New York University Press. 342 Pp. 1997. |
52 Oklahoma Law Review 685 (Winter, 1999) |
The American Nation has always had a specific ethnic core. And that core has been white. The recently enacted anti-immigration policies which target Asian and Latino immigrants are the latest manifestations of the social construction of these racial groups as foreigners not entitled to the equal protection of the law. This anti-immigrant animus is... |
1999 |
| David E. Bernstein |
Lochner, Parity, and the Chinese Laundry Cases |
41 William and Mary Law Review 211 (December, 1999) |
From the 1860s to the early twentieth century, Chinese laundrymen throughout the American West suffered from violence, boycotts, and hostile regulation of their occupation by local governments. The vast majority of Chinese laundrymen were not permitted to vote because they were aliens ineligible for citizenship. The laundrymen therefore could not... |
1999 |
| Rockwell Chin |
Long Struggle for Justice |
85-NOV ABA Journal 66 (November, 1999) |
In the struggle for civil rights in the United States, Asian Pacific Americans have not always fought the loudest battles, and their struggles have not often garnered the biggest headlines. But their efforts nevertheless have had a deep impact on the continuing struggle to rid America of racism, bigotry and discrimination. Faced with a hostile... |
1999 |
| Harvey Gee |
Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience: a Review Essay |
13 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 635 (Summer, 1999) |
As a movement for social change, Asian American activism must confront institutional forces that maintain the status quo. Asian American movements face additional burdens that stem from society's refusal to acknowledge the oppression, humanity, and the very existence of Asian Americans. Ancheta's book represents one of the most comprehensive and... |
1999 |
| Troy M. Yoshino |
Still Keeping the Faith?: Asian Pacific Americans, Ballot Initiatives, and the Lessons of Negotiated Rulemaking |
6 Asian Law Journal 1 (May, 1999) |
Asian Pacific Americans (APA's) face a number of obstacles to obtaining proportionate electoral power in the United States. The author examines several factors that have contributed to the diminution of the APA political voice including the occupation of a smaller percentage of the political constituency, the absence of a strong national leader,... |
1999 |
| Mark K. Hanasono |
Stranded in Japan and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 Recognition for an Excluded Group of Japanese Americans |
6 Asian Law Journal 151 (May, 1999) |
The United States government provided redress and reparations for many Japanese Americans injured by its constitutional violations during World War II. The United States has failed, however, to address the legitimate claims of Japanese Americans who traveled to Japan for temporary visits before the outbreak of World War II. These Japanese Americans... |
1999 |
| Irene Scharf |
Tired of Your Masses: a History of and Judicial Responses to Early 20th Century Anti-immigrant Legislation |
21 University of Hawaii Law Review 131 (Summer, 1999) |
A story with eerie reminiscences of times past appeared in the National Law Journal this past October. The story, about the case of Soko Bukai v. YWCA of San Francisco, can serve to remind us all of a not-too-distant past that reverberates even today around this nation. Soko Bukai was brought on behalf of 700 members of the Japanese-American... |
1999 |
| TAM B. TRAN |
Using Dsm-iv to Diagnose Mental Illness in Asian Americans |
10 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 335 (1999) |
Until the recent development and publishing of DSM-IV, very little attention was paid to the influence of cultural factors on diagnosis of mental disorder. In the past, DSM manuals were formulated according to Western psychiatric ideologies and social influences that often did not correlate with the mental health systems of other cultures. Hence,... |
1999 |
| Gil Gott |
A Tale of New Precedents: Japanese American Internment as Foreign Affairs Law |
19 Boston College Third World Law Journal 179 (Fall, 1998) |
In a recently published book on the status of civil liberties in wartime, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist offers a surprising defense and rationalization of the Japanese American internment. One might have assumed that the official debate on the internment had closed in 1988 when, in an exceptional act of national contrition, President Ronald... |
1998 |
| Gil Gott |
A Tale of New Precedents: Japanese American Internment as Foreign Affairs Law |
40 Boston College Law Review 179 (December, 1998) |
In a recently published book on the status of civil liberties in wartime, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist offers a surprising defense and rationalization of the Japanese American internment. One might have assumed that the official debate on the internment had closed in 1988 when, in an exceptional act of national contrition, President Ronald... |
1998 |
| Kevin M. Pimentel , Ronnie H. Rhoe |
Asian America's Greatest Hits: a Review of Angelo Ancheta's Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience |
4 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 169 (Fall 1998) |
We are the children of the migrant worker We are the offspring of the concentration camp, Sons and daughters of the railroad builder Who leave their stamp on Amerika. Asian Americans have always been on the business end of the stick called history. Alternately and simultaneously characterized as both the eternal foreigner --unwilling and unable... |
1998 |
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Asian Pacific American Law Students Association Statement Regarding the Lawsuit Against the University of Michigan |
5 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 217 (1998) |
December 3, 1997 The Asian Pacific American Law Students Association at the University of Michigan (APALSA) supports the implementation of affirmative action programs conscious of race, ethnicity, gender and disability. We assert that the lawsuits filed against the University of Michigan's undergraduate and law school admissions programs are... |
1998 |
| Caitlin M. Liu |
Beyond Black and White: Chinese Americans Challenge San Francisco's Desegregation Plan |
5 Asian Law Journal 341 (May, 1998) |
For the past 15 years, San Francisco has taken aggressive measures to desegregate its public schools. Originally conceived to enhance equal education opportunities for racial and ethnic minority children, the desegregation plan has come under increasing attack in recent years for its discriminatory effects on students of Chinese descent, especially... |
1998 |
| L. Ling-chi Wang |
Beyond Identity and Racial Politics: Asian Americans and the Campaign Fund-raising Controversy |
5 Asian Law Journal 329 (May, 1998) |
The campaign finance scandal of 1996, based on my own collection and estimate, has generated no less than 4,000 newspaper and magazine articles between September 1996 and February 1998 on the so-called Asian connection. At the eye of the storm were John Huang and Charlie Yah-lin Trie, two Asian American donors/fundraisers for President Bill... |
1998 |
| Taunya Lovell Banks |
Both Edges of the Margin: Blacks and Asians in Mississippi Masala, Barriers to Coalition Building |
5 Asian Law Journal 7 (May, 1998) |
Asians often take the middle position between White privilege and Black subordination and therefore participate in what Professor Banks calls simultaneous racism, where one racially subordinated group subordinates another. She observes that the experience of Asian Indian immigrants in Mira Nair's film parallels a much earlier Chinese immigrant... |
1998 |
| Anthony S. Wang |
Demystifying the Asian American Neo-conservative: a Strange and New Political Animal? |
5 Asian Law Journal 213 (May, 1998) |
Asian American neo-conservatives are the product of the 1960s Asian American movement, yet they have diverged in principle from its modern-day progressive flag-bearers. This divergence, Mr. Wang observes, has led to the exclusion of neo-conservatives from the debate over the political direction of Asian Americans. Mr. Wang seeks to de-mystify... |
1998 |
| Robert S. Chang |
Dreaming in Black and White: Racial-sexual Policing in the Birth of a Nation, the Cheat, and Who Killed Vincent Chin? |
5 Asian Law Journal 41 (May, 1998) |
Professor Chang observes that Asians are often perceived as interlopers in the nativistic American family. This conception of a nativist family is White in composition and therefore accords a sense of economic and sexual entitlement to Whites, ironically, even if particular beneficiaries are recent immigrants. Transgressions by those perceived... |
1998 |
| Christine Ann Lobasso |
Elevation of the Individual: International Legal Issues That Flow from the American Internment of the West Coast Japanese During World War Ii |
8 Touro International Law Review 45 (Spring, 1998) |
The sudden Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 shocked the United States into war with Japan. This offensive act also induced a fear on the American West Coast that blended with preexistent anti-Asian sentiment to culminate in an incident that can best be described as a suspension of the civil liberties of approximately 112,000 West... |
1998 |