Barbed voices : oral history, resistance, and the World War II Japanese American social disaster / Arthur A. Hansen.

"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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:George and Sakaye Aratani Nikkei in the Americas series.
Main Author: Hansen, Arthur A. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2018]
Series:George and Sakaye Aratani Nikkei in the Americas series.
Subjects:
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Japanese Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > West (U.S.)
Civil disobedience > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Japanese Americans.
Oral history.
Civil disobedience.
Nazi concentration camps.
Japanese Americans.
Japanese Americans > Social conditions.
United States.
West United States.
1900-1999
History.
Internment camps.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xvi, 310 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Oral history and the World War II 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.