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Based on your readings and the documentary Enemy Alien, compare and contrast the experience of Farouk Abdel-Muhti and that of Japanese Americans during WWII. How do politicians usurp constitutional rights during time of war? Why do they get away with it?
Answer 500 words or more citing specific examples.
Abdulhadi, R. (2011). Where is Home? In R. Abdulhadi, E. Alsultany, & N. Naber (Eds.), Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence and Belonging (315-328). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
Cole, D. (2003). From Communism to Terrorism: Lessons of a Young Lawyer. In Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (159- 179). New York: The New Press.
Cainkar, L. (2009). Whose Home Land Security? In Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim Experience After 9/11 (110-152). New York: Russell Sage Foundation
“Arab American Museum’s Sept. 11 anniversary town hall examines Japanese internment, Muslim ban”. 2017 August 31. Press and Guide. http://www.pressandguide.com/news/arab-american-museum-s-sept-anniversary-town-hall-examines-japanese/article_025ecc9f-8727-5c08-93ee-35d9016189fb.html
Masoud Hayoun. 200017. Muslim Ban: Japanese and Muslim Americans Join Forces. Aljazeera. February 1, 2017http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/02/muslim-ban-japanese-muslim-americans-join-forces-170201055155362.html
Enemy Alien Screening. 2012.
https://amara.org/en/videos/qSdNkDUpshua/info/enemy-alien/
Life or Liberty. http://lifeorliberty.org/events/enemy-alien-screening-launch-joint-palestinian-and-asian-american-project-ca. October 27, 2012.
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb. 2013. Japanese-American and Arab-American Communities in Bay Area make solidarity over persecution histories, in Mondoweiss, July 25, 2013. http://mondoweiss.net/2013/07/japanese-american-and-arab-american-communities-in-bay-area-make-solidarity-over-persecution-histories//.
Japanese American National Museum. Enduring Communities. 2008 National Conference Speakers: Grace Shimizu. http://www.janm.org/projects/ec/conference/speakers/87/.
Day of Remembrance 2016 Criminalizing Communities, Building Solidarities: Arabs, Asians and Muslims – Then and Now, Wed. Feb 17 2016. https://amed.sfsu.edu/content/day-remembrance-2016-criminalizing-communities-building-solidarities-arabs-asians-and
Watch:
Connecting Community: Asian American and Palestinian Stories-Part 1 with Dr. Abdulhadi (AMED, 2011:16 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdHxOjI8EO
Enemy Alien (Konrad Aderer, 2009: 70 min)
https://amara.org/en/videos/qSdNkDUpshua/info/enemy-alien/
Day of Remembrance 2016: With Dr. Abdulhadi, Karen Korematsu, Michael Yoshi (AMED SFSU, 2016: 1 hour and 15 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw6caZfe28w
Day of Remembrance 2016: Karen Korematsu, Pastor Michael Yoshi, and Dr. Abdulhadi (AMED SFSU, 2016: 75) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSxoCe8idrY
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