Cherstin M. Lyon
Cherstin M. Lyon é professor associado de história e coordenador do Programa de História Pública e Oral da California State University, Bernardino, e autor de Prisons and Patriots: Nipo- American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory (Temple University Press, 2011 ).
Atualizado em julho de 2012
Stories from This Author
Searching for the Roots of Resistance
26 de Julho 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 …
