<p> BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY SYLLABUS FALL 2016 CJ 494/594, HIST 494/594, POLS 494/594, SOC 494, SPS 494/594 CIVIL LIBERTIES SYMPOSIUM XI</p><p>Instructor: Ross E. Burkhart, Dept. of Political Science Meeting Days: October 15th & 16th, 2016 Office: Environmental Research Building, Room 5133 Meeting Times: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Contact: 426.3280(w), 473.0963(c), [email protected] Meeting Location: SUB, Boise State Univ.</p><p>Overview: This Symposium workshop in the Student Union Building at Boise State University is designed to introduce students to themes and concepts surrounding the incarceration of Japanese Americans living along the U.S. West Coast during World War II under Executive Order 9066 (1942) issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Minidoka incarceration camp, called the Minidoka War Relocation Center, is located in Jerome County near the town of Eden, Idaho. More than 9,000 Japanese American were incarcerated in this camp. The campsite, which is gradually being restored, is a National Historic Site and is administered by the National Park Service.</p><p>Despite the wartime hysteria, there was significant opposition to Executive Order 9066, due to its wholesale incarceration of an entire racial group on highly questionable grounds. The advocates of the Executive Order proclaimed that Japanese Americans could not be trusted to be loyal to the U.S., even though the vast majority of the more than 110,000 Japanese Americans affected by the Executive Order were nisei (second generation) and sansei (third generation) and so were definitively U.S. citizens.</p><p>Among the themes, topics and concepts that the various speakers will explore during this Symposium will be the treatment of ethnic and racial minorities during wartime, whether or not it is ever justified to inter an entire group of people based on ethnic and/or racial ancestry, the efforts to seek justice for the interred populations, and what justice might be for aggrieved people. The speakers will also address this year’s Symposium theme of mass incarceration and the protection of civil liberties during both wartime and the contemporary era, from a variety of perspectives.</p><p>Grade Assessment: To earn a passing grade for this Symposium workshop, enrolled undergraduate students will need to (1) attend both days for the duration of the Symposium by signing the sign-in sheet at the Symposium entrance each day, and (2) submitting a short essay to me via email. For the essay assignment, I would like for you to write reflectively on at least two but no more than four of the Symposium speakers (and at least one speaker per Symposium day), writing about what each speaker taught you about the themes, topics and concepts discussed during the Symposium. Essays should be no longer than four pages per speaker and should be written in proper, grammatical style. The essays are due to Dr. Burkhart via email ([email protected]) by 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, October 22nd, 2016.</p><p>To earn a passing grade for this Symposium workshop, enrolled graduate students will need to (1) attend both days for the duration of the Symposium by signing the sign-in sheet at the Symposium entrance each day, and (2) submitting two short essays to me via email. For the assignments, I would like for you to write two reflective essays on at least two but no more than four of the Symposium speakers (and at least one speaker per Symposium day), writing about what each speaker taught you about the themes, topics and concepts discussed during the Symposium. Essays should be no longer than eight pages per speaker and should be written in proper, grammatical style. The essays are due to Dr. Burkhart via email ([email protected]) by 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, October 22nd, 2016.</p><p>Booklist: Here is a list of books and DVDs that the Symposium speakers recommend and may assist you with your understanding of the themes, topics and concepts covered during the Symposium.</p><p>Hirabayashi, Gordon with James A. Hirabayashi and Lane Hirabayashi. A Principled Stand. University of Washington Press, Seattle. 2013.</p><p>2</p><p>Kashima, Tetsuden. Judgment without Trial. University of Washington Press, Seattle. 2003. </p><p>Matsuda, Lawrence. A Cold Wind from Idaho, Black Lawrence Press, Aspinwall, PA. 2010</p><p>Nakadate, Neil. Looking After Minidoka: An American Memoir. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. IN. 2013</p><p>Stone, Geoffrey. Speaking Out: Reflections on Law, Liberty and Justice. Lulu.com. 2010.</p><p>Tamura, Teresa. Minidoka, An American Concentration Camp. Caxton Press . 2013. </p><p>Tremayne, Russell, ed. Surviving Minidoka. Boise State University, Boise, Idaho. 2013</p><p>Daniels, Roger, Prisoners Without Trial. </p><p>Fiset, Louis. Imprisoned Apart. The War Correspondence of an Issei Couple. University of Washington Press, Seattle. 1997.</p><p>Ford, Jamie. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. </p><p>Goto, Dee, Kiuchi, Atsushi, and Kusakabe, Rev. Taku, eds. Omoide Revisited: Volume I: To Capture a Memory; Volume II: To Capture a Memory; and Volume III: Stories from Our Japanese Heritage. Japanese Heritage Historical Society Publication, Seattle, WA. 2011.</p><p>Goto, Dee and Kiuchi, Atsushi, eds. Omoide IV: Childhood Memories. Japanese Heritage Historical Society Publication, Seattle, WA. 2005.</p><p>Goto, Dee and Kiuchi, Atsushi, eds. Omoide V: Childhood Memories. Japanese Heritage Historical Society Publication, Seattle, WA. 2009.</p><p>Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and Houston, James D. Farewell to Manzanar. Laurel Leaf Books. New York. 1973.</p><p>Ichikawa, Sat. The Minidoka Story. NVC Foundation, 1212 SO. King St. Seattle, WA. 98144.</p><p>Inada, Lawson Fusao, ed. Only What We Could Carry. The Japanese American Internment Experience. Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA. 2000. 3</p><p>Kadohata, Cynthia. Weedflower. Atheneum Books for Young Readers. New York. 2006.</p><p>Mochizuki, Ken. Baseball Saved Us. Lee & Low Books Inc. New York. 1993.</p><p>Patneaude, David. Thin Wood Walls. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston, MA. 2004.</p><p>Personal Justice Denied. Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. University of Washington Press, Seattle. 1997.</p><p>Uchida, Yoshiko. The Bracelet. The Putnam and Gosset Group. New York, 1976. </p><p>Woodward, Mary. In Defense of Our Neighbors: The Walt and Milly Woodward Story. Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community, Bainbridge Island, 2008.</p>