Natsu Taylor Saito
Biographic Data
| ID | 1383786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natsu Taylor Saito |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natsu Taylor |
| FAMILY NAME | Saito |
| SIGNATURE | SAITO N T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-5043-8370 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Race, Indigeneity, and Migration
Race, indigeneity, and migration are integrally related in international law. This relationship can be traced to their origins in a legal system dedicated to facilitating European colonialism and imperial expansion. International law has constructed racial difference and deployed racialized hierarchies to determine who would be permitted to migrate to various parts of the world and what their rights or responsibilities would be in those locations…
Who Is a Prisoner of War? Mutulu Shakur and the Struggle for Black Liberation
Keywords: decolonizationinternational lawMutulu Shakurprisoner of warRepublic of New Afrikasocial movements Author's NoteWhile I am solely responsible for the views presented in this essay, I owe a debt of gratitude to the principled perseverance of Mutulu Shakur and the many attorneys who have represented him, and to the work of many scholars, especially Ward Churchill, Kathleen Cleaver, Lennox Hinds, Chokwe Lumumba, Susan Rosenberg, and Akinyel…
Origin Stories: Critical Race Theory Encounters the War on Terror
Stories matter. They matter to those intent on maintaining structures of power and privilege, and to those being crushed by those structures. In the United States, the space to tell, and to hear, our stories has been expanding. This means that the histories and lived realities of those who have been excluded, particularly people of color, are seeping into mainstream discourse, into the books our children read, the movies and television shows they…
Different Paths
A critical perspective on law and political economy requires an appreciation not only of how race, gender, sexuality, class, national origin, immigrant status, and other aspects of our identities intersect and interact, but also why they do so. Focusing on the United States as a settler colonial state, this essay suggests that the primary markers of identity used to oppress people are themselves the master’s tools, i.e., constructs of the colonia…
The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law: Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s
Not many Americans remember—or were ever taught—that in 1950 Congress authorized the preventive detention of persons who might engage in sabotage or espionage during a national security crisis. Pursuant to this Emergency Detention Act, also known as Title II of the Internal Security (McCarran) Act, the Justice Department constructed six facilities intended to serve as concentration camps for such suspects, should the president declare an internal…
City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
Tongva peoples indigenous to southern California, white “tramps,” Chinese laborers, Mexican revolutionaries, and black workers rendered redundant are peoples who have been targeted for incarceration in Los Angeles, Kelly Lytle Hernández explains, and this is why City of Inmates is not just another book lamenting mass incarceration. It is, instead, a beautifully narrated, deeply insightful historical assessment of the dynamics of American settler …
Indefinite Detention, Colonialism, and Settler Prerogative in the United States
The primacy accorded individual civil and political rights is often touted as one of the United States’ greatest achievements. However, mass incarcerations of indefinite duration have occurred consistently throughout US history and have primarily targeted people of color. The dominant narrative insists that the United States is a political democracy and portrays each instance of indefinite detention in exceptionalist terms. This essay argues that…
Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II
The United States prides itself on exemplifying the rule of law. Those who point out patterns of state-sponsored rightlessness engender cognitive dissonance, often provoking retreat into denial. In Rightlessness A. Naomi Paik, an assistant professor of Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, engages in an astute assault on the exceptionalist narrative that cloaks such denial. Rightlessness analyzes the internment o…
Life and Legal Fictions: Reflections on Margaret Montoya’s Máscaras, Trenzas, Y Greñas
This essay is based on a presentation made as part of “Un/Masking Power: The Past, Present, and Future of Marginal Identities in Legal Academia,” a symposium sponsored by the UCLA Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review, April 5, 2013
Reflections on Homeland and Security
Homeland Security. A brilliantly simple phrase, for who among us does not desire, above all, to be safe in our own home? And who would not take such measures as may be necessary or expend all available resources to protect it? In the context of the United States' current War on Terror, this concept has been consistently invoked to justify the expenditure of billions of dollars, the sacrifice of thousands of American lives and untold hundreds of t…
The Costs of Homeland Security
Research Article| October 01 2005 The Costs of Homeland Security Natsu Taylor Saito Natsu Taylor Saito Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (93): 53–78. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2005-93-53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Natsu Taylor Saito; The Costs of Homeland Security. Radical History Review 1 October 2005; 2005 (9…
The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law: Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s
Not many Americans remember—or were ever taught—that in 1950 Congress authorized the preventive detention of persons who might engage in sabotage or espionage during a national security crisis. Pursuant to this Emergency Detention Act, also known as Title II of the Internal Security (McCarran) Act, the Justice Department constructed six facilities intended to serve as concentration camps for such suspects, should the president declare an internal…
City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
Tongva peoples indigenous to southern California, white “tramps,” Chinese laborers, Mexican revolutionaries, and black workers rendered redundant are peoples who have been targeted for incarceration in Los Angeles, Kelly Lytle Hernández explains, and this is why City of Inmates is not just another book lamenting mass incarceration. It is, instead, a beautifully narrated, deeply insightful historical assessment of the dynamics of American settler …
Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II
The United States prides itself on exemplifying the rule of law. Those who point out patterns of state-sponsored rightlessness engender cognitive dissonance, often provoking retreat into denial. In Rightlessness A. Naomi Paik, an assistant professor of Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, engages in an astute assault on the exceptionalist narrative that cloaks such denial. Rightlessness analyzes the internment o…
Indefinite Detention, Colonialism, and Settler Prerogative in the United States
The primacy accorded individual civil and political rights is often touted as one of the United States’ greatest achievements. However, mass incarcerations of indefinite duration have occurred consistently throughout US history and have primarily targeted people of color. The dominant narrative insists that the United States is a political democracy and portrays each instance of indefinite detention in exceptionalist terms. This essay argues that…
Reflections on Homeland and Security
Homeland Security. A brilliantly simple phrase, for who among us does not desire, above all, to be safe in our own home? And who would not take such measures as may be necessary or expend all available resources to protect it? In the context of the United States' current War on Terror, this concept has been consistently invoked to justify the expenditure of billions of dollars, the sacrifice of thousands of American lives and untold hundreds of t…
The Costs of Homeland Security
Research Article| October 01 2005 The Costs of Homeland Security Natsu Taylor Saito Natsu Taylor Saito Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (93): 53–78. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2005-93-53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Natsu Taylor Saito; The Costs of Homeland Security. Radical History Review 1 October 2005; 2005 (9…
The Costs of Homeland Security
Research Article| October 01 2005 The Costs of Homeland Security Natsu Taylor Saito Natsu Taylor Saito Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (93): 53–78. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2005-93-53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Natsu Taylor Saito; The Costs of Homeland Security. Radical History Review 1 October 2005; 2005 (9…
Reflections on Homeland and Security
Homeland Security. A brilliantly simple phrase, for who among us does not desire, above all, to be safe in our own home? And who would not take such measures as may be necessary or expend all available resources to protect it? In the context of the United States' current War on Terror, this concept has been consistently invoked to justify the expenditure of billions of dollars, the sacrifice of thousands of American lives and untold hundreds of t…
Life and Legal Fictions: Reflections on Margaret Montoya’s Máscaras, Trenzas, Y Greñas
This essay is based on a presentation made as part of “Un/Masking Power: The Past, Present, and Future of Marginal Identities in Legal Academia,” a symposium sponsored by the UCLA Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review, April 5, 2013
Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II
The United States prides itself on exemplifying the rule of law. Those who point out patterns of state-sponsored rightlessness engender cognitive dissonance, often provoking retreat into denial. In Rightlessness A. Naomi Paik, an assistant professor of Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, engages in an astute assault on the exceptionalist narrative that cloaks such denial. Rightlessness analyzes the internment o…
Indefinite Detention, Colonialism, and Settler Prerogative in the United States
The primacy accorded individual civil and political rights is often touted as one of the United States’ greatest achievements. However, mass incarcerations of indefinite duration have occurred consistently throughout US history and have primarily targeted people of color. The dominant narrative insists that the United States is a political democracy and portrays each instance of indefinite detention in exceptionalist terms. This essay argues that…
City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
Tongva peoples indigenous to southern California, white “tramps,” Chinese laborers, Mexican revolutionaries, and black workers rendered redundant are peoples who have been targeted for incarceration in Los Angeles, Kelly Lytle Hernández explains, and this is why City of Inmates is not just another book lamenting mass incarceration. It is, instead, a beautifully narrated, deeply insightful historical assessment of the dynamics of American settler …
Different Paths
A critical perspective on law and political economy requires an appreciation not only of how race, gender, sexuality, class, national origin, immigrant status, and other aspects of our identities intersect and interact, but also why they do so. Focusing on the United States as a settler colonial state, this essay suggests that the primary markers of identity used to oppress people are themselves the master’s tools, i.e., constructs of the colonia…
The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law: Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s
Not many Americans remember—or were ever taught—that in 1950 Congress authorized the preventive detention of persons who might engage in sabotage or espionage during a national security crisis. Pursuant to this Emergency Detention Act, also known as Title II of the Internal Security (McCarran) Act, the Justice Department constructed six facilities intended to serve as concentration camps for such suspects, should the president declare an internal…
Origin Stories: Critical Race Theory Encounters the War on Terror
Stories matter. They matter to those intent on maintaining structures of power and privilege, and to those being crushed by those structures. In the United States, the space to tell, and to hear, our stories has been expanding. This means that the histories and lived realities of those who have been excluded, particularly people of color, are seeping into mainstream discourse, into the books our children read, the movies and television shows they…
Who Is a Prisoner of War? Mutulu Shakur and the Struggle for Black Liberation
Keywords: decolonizationinternational lawMutulu Shakurprisoner of warRepublic of New Afrikasocial movements Author's NoteWhile I am solely responsible for the views presented in this essay, I owe a debt of gratitude to the principled perseverance of Mutulu Shakur and the many attorneys who have represented him, and to the work of many scholars, especially Ward Churchill, Kathleen Cleaver, Lennox Hinds, Chokwe Lumumba, Susan Rosenberg, and Akinyel…
Race, Indigeneity, and Migration
Race, indigeneity, and migration are integrally related in international law. This relationship can be traced to their origins in a legal system dedicated to facilitating European colonialism and imperial expansion. International law has constructed racial difference and deployed racialized hierarchies to determine who would be permitted to migrate to various parts of the world and what their rights or responsibilities would be in those locations…
Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · History (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)