Cherstin M. Lyon
Cherstin M. Lyon es profesora asociada de historia y coordinadora del Programa de Historia Pública y Oral de la Universidad Estatal de California, Bernardino, y autora de Prisons and Patriots: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory (Temple University Press, 2011). ).
Actualizado en julio de 2012
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Searching for the Roots of Resistance
26 de julio de 2012 • Cherstin M. Lyon
Late one evening, early in May 2002, I sat in a hotel room with a colleague, historical archaeologist Nicole Branton, after a long day of traveling and conducting interviews. Together, we read from the wartime diary that Joe Norikane had so generously lent to us. We had visited Joe and his wife Tee as a part of the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program grant we had received to conduct oral histories with Nisei who had served wartime federal prison …
