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. ..[O]bserves that people of color are disproportionately affected by repressive actions to preserve America's 'freedom' and 'way of life.' The author advocates respect for rights recognized in the Constitution and in international law that the U.S. has chosen to disregard on the grounds of supposed peril....Saito provides an extensive, well-documented compendium of wrongs perpetrated against outsiders and domestic outcasts in the name of societal safety and well-being. --Jeffery A. Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Journal of American Ethnic History From Chinese Exclusion to Guantanamo Bay is a critical and timely intervention in the study of the wholesale failure of the U.S. government to comply with the rule of law in the modern 'war on terror.' Professor Saito thoroughly demonstrates how the history of lawless treatment of immigrants and domestic minorities, including the internment of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II, created the foundations for the lawlessness that pervades the recent treatment of Arabs and Musliims in the United States, Afghanistan, Iraq (including Abu Ghraib), and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Kevin R. Johnson, University of California, Davis Consistent with US legal scholarship, Saito provides copious citations for her assertions and statements of fact. Her meticulous research and synthesis of primary and secondary sources is commendable, particularly in the service of a challenge to accepted historical interpretations and an analysis that leads to disquieting but urgent conclusions. Readers seeking a thorough, historically grounded analysis of US actions (and court inaction) in the war on terror, and a passionate defense of the rule of law will find Saito's book rewarding. --Ann M. Lucas, The International History Review From Chinese Exclusion to Guantanamo Bay is a critical and timely intervention in the study of the wholesale failure of the U.S. government to comply with the rule of law in the modern 'war on terror.' Professor Saito thoroughly demonstrates how the history of lawless treatment of immigrants and domestic minorities, including the internment of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II, created the foundations for the lawlessness that pervades the recent treatment of Arabs and Musliims in the United States, Afghanistan, Iraq (including Abu Ghraib), and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. --Kevin R. Johnson, University of California, Davis .. .[O]bserves that people of color are disproportionately affected by repressive actions to preserve America's 'freedom' and 'way of life.' The author advocates respect for rights recognized in the Constitution and in international law that the U.S. has chosen to disregard on the grounds of supposed peril....Saito provides an extensive, well-documented compendium of wrongs perpetrated against outsiders and domestic outcasts in the name of societal safety and well-being. --Jeffery A. Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Journal of American Ethnic History

.""..[O]bserves that people of color are disproportionately affected by repressive actions to preserve America's 'freedom' and 'way of life.' The author advocates respect for rights recognized in the Constitution and in international law that the U.S. has chosen to disregard on the grounds of supposed peril....Saito provides an extensive, well-documented compendium of wrongs perpetrated against outsiders and domestic outcasts in the name of societal safety and well-being."" --Jeffery A. Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; ""Journal of American Ethnic History"" """"From Chinese Exclusion to Guantanamo Bay"" is a critical and timely intervention in the study of the wholesale failure of the U.S. government to comply with the rule of law in the modern 'war on terror.' Professor Saito thoroughly demonstrates how the history of lawless treatment of immigrants and domestic minorities, including the internment of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II, created the foundations for the lawlessness that pervades the recent treatment of Arabs and Musliims in the United States, Afghanistan, Iraq (including Abu Ghraib), and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."" Kevin R. Johnson, University of California, Davis"" ""Consistent with US legal scholarship, Saito provides copious citations for her assertions and statements of fact. Her meticulous research and synthesis of primary and secondary sources is commendable, particularly in the service of a challenge to accepted historical interpretations and an analysis that leads to disquieting but urgent conclusions. Readers seeking a thorough, historically grounded analysis of US actions (and court inaction) in the war on terror, and a passionate defense of the rule of law will find Saito's book rewarding."" --Ann M. Lucas, The International History Review

Consistent with US legal scholarship, Saito provides copious citations for her assertions and statements of fact. Her meticulous research and synthesis of primary and secondary sources is commendable, particularly in the service of a challenge to accept

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Natsu Taylor Saito is an attorney and a professor at Georgia State University's College of Law in Atlanta.

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