Barbed voices : oral history, resistance, and the World War II Japanese American social disaster / Arthur A. Hansen ; with a foreword by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
Foreword -- Introduction -- Oral history and the Japanese American incarceration -- The Manzanar "riot" : an ethnic perspective -- A riot of voices : racial and ethnic variables in interactive oral history interviewing -- Taking it to the limit : cultural politics and community control in the Gila River Relocation Center, 1942-1943 -- Protest-resistance and the Heart Mountain experience : the revitalization of a robust Nikkei tradition -- Political ideology and participant observation : Nisei social scientists in the Japanese evacuation and resettlement study, 1942-1945 -- Sergeant Ben Kuroki's perilous 1944 "home mission" : contested loyalty and patriotism in Japanese American detention centers -- Peculiar odyssey : newsman Jimmie Omura's removal from and regeneration within Nikkei society, history, and memory -- Epilogue
Summary:
"An updated and annotated anthology of published articles written by a respected historian of Japanese American history. Featuring selected inmates and camp groups who spearheaded resistance movements in the ten War Relocation Authority-administered compounds. Provides an understanding how some of the 120,000 incarcerated Japanese Americans opposed threats"--Provided by publisher
Topic:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Search this
Japanese Americans--Social conditions--History Search this
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps Search this
