Eric Muller on 'The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II' [audio 30min]

Eric Muller talks on Seattle Public Radio about his 2007 book, American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II, a follow-up to his 2001 book, Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II. He discusses the program undertaken by the United States against the Japanese Americans, as a "enemy race," during World World II, whether they were Japanese citizens or American citizens. His analysis in this book begins after 1942, after the Japanese Americans were taken to outlying areas to live in camps until the U.S. government decided what to do with them. How did the government choose to define loyalty? Muller is Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor in Jurisprudence and Ethics at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.