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The Asian Pacific Islander Faculty & Staff Association and the NOCCCD Office of Diversity & Compliance present:

"The Persisting Significance of the Incarceration of Japanese Americans"

Eric Yamamoto

Fred T. Korematsu Professor of Law and Social Justice

University of Hawai’i at Manoa, School of Law

Date: Wednesday, Feb. 16th, 2022

Time: 1:00-2:30

Location: Zoom Link

Meeting ID: 954 6134 4320

Password: 774774

 2022 marks the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 initiating the World War II incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans on what turned out to be falsified claims of group disloyalty.  This mass racial treatment, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1944 Korematsu decision legally validating it, remain startingly significant today. What will happen when those detained, harassed or discriminated against in the name of national security turn to the courts for legal protection?  How will the U.S. courts respond to the need both to promote security and to protect fundamental democratic liberties enshrined in the Bill of Rights?

Professor Yamamoto is nationally and internationally recognized for his legal work and scholarship on civil procedure as well as national security and civil liberties, civil and human rights and social justice, with an emphasis on reconciliation initiatives and reparations for historic injustice. His presentation will be informed by his recent book, In the Shadow of Korematsu:  Democratic Liberties and National Security.

 

2021-2022 APIA Scholarship 

Asian Pacific Islander Faculty Staff Association (APIA) seeks to recognize outstanding students who exemplify the spirit of APIA by achieving academic excellence and demonstrating personal commitment and dedicated service to their community. The Fullerton College APIA scholarship of $300 will be awarded to one currently enrolled student in any field at each campus. Please use the forms that pertain to your campus.

The scholarship forms have been moved to:

APIA Scholarships LibGuide