Prisons and patriots : Japanese American wartime citizenship, civil disobedience, and historical memory /

Prisons and patriots : Japanese American wartime citizenship, civil disobedience, and historical memory / Cherstin M. Lyon.

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Prisons and Patriots provides a detailed account of forty-one Nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans), known as the Tucsonians, who were imprisoned for resisting the draft during WWII. Cherstin Lyon parallels their courage as resisters with that of civil rights hero Gordon Hirabayashi, well kno...

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Main Author: Lyon, Cherstin M., 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2012]
Series:Asian American history and culture.
Subjects:
Hirabayashi, Gordon K.
1900 - 1999
Japanese Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Japanese Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Draft resisters > United States.
Civil disobedience > United States > History > 20th century.
Prisoners > Arizona > Tucson > Biography.
Japanese Americans
Civil disobedience
Draft resisters
Japanese Americans > Civil rights
Japanese Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Prisoners
Arizona > Tucson
United States
Biographies
History

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Call Number: D769.8.A6 L96 2012eb
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