This remarkable and sinister Act Izumi (a professor of North American Studies in a major Japanese university) examines through the lens of race, civil liberties and national security during the period that she calls the “age of concentration camps” from 1941 to the repeal of the Emergency Detention Act in 1971. The background to this is of course the totally unconstitutional detention of US citizens of Japanese descent, (as well as other non-citizen Japanese residents) and their incarceration in what really were concentration camps, usually in remote and inhospitable interior areas of the US after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the US entering the war as a result.