By A. Naomi Paik
Yet rightless individuals are now not silent. Drawing from an expansive testimonial archive of felony complaints, fact fee files, poetry, and experimental video, Paik exhibits how rightless humans use their imprisonment to protest U.S. kingdom violence. She examines calls for for redress by means of jap americans interned in the course of international struggle II, tales of HIV-positive Haitian refugees detained at Guantanamo within the early Nineteen Nineties, and appeals by means of Guantanamo's enemy fighters from the battle on Terror. In doing so, she finds a strong ongoing contest over the character and which means of the legislation, over civil liberties and international human rights, and over the ability of the kingdom in people's lives.
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