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Asian Americans and the Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives


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Japanese Immigrants and American Law The Alien Land Laws and Other Issues

Japanese Immigrants and American Law: The Alien Land Laws and Other Issues

1st Edition

Edited By Charles McClain
November 01, 1994

First Published in 1995. Since many Japanese immigrants focused on agriculture, California and other western states sought to discourage their presense by passing laws making it impossible for Japanese to own agricultural land and enacted other discriminatory as well. The articles in this volume ...

The Mass Internment of Japanese Americans and the Quest for Legal Redress

The Mass Internment of Japanese Americans and the Quest for Legal Redress

1st Edition

Edited By Charles McClain, Charles J. McClain
October 01, 1994

In 1942 U.S. military authorities, invoking a presidential order and an Act of Congress, forcibly evacuated over 110,000 persons of Japnese ancestry, most of them U/S. citizens, from their homes on the West Coast to what in fact were prison camps inland. The essays and articles in this volume ...

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