Arthur A. Hansen is emeritus professor of history, founding director of the Japanese American Project of the Oral History Program and the Center for Oral and Public History, and founding faculty member of the Asian American Studies Program at California State University, Fullerton. He has been honored as both the Outstanding Teacher and the Outstanding Faculty Member in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSUF. He was senior historian at the Japanese American National Museum and received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2007 and the Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award from the Manzanar Committee in 2014. He is also the author of Barbed Voices: Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social Disaster and editor of Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura.

“The significance of this work goes beyond the specific historical stories it tells. It is a timely reminder that each and every individual citizen must ask themselves, ‘What is the citizen’s rightful response to constitutional transgressions? What, indeed, is a citizen’s responsibility when racially based civil rights restrictions are imposed by an errant government?’”—Cherstin Lyon, Southern Oregon University  “A wonderful and most important contribution on the Japanese American tragedy that befell thisinnocent group during the Second World War. Yoshito Kuromiya performs an outstanding feat offilling in the details from the Heart Mountain resisters to the draft and exploring and explaining his personal reasons for choosing his course of action.”—Tetsuden Kashima, University of Washington

Arthur A. Hansen is emeritus professor of history, founding director of the Japanese American Project of the Oral History Program and the Center for Oral and Public History, and founding faculty member of the Asian American Studies Program at California State University, Fullerton. He has been honored as both the Outstanding Teacher and the Outstanding Faculty Member in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSUF. He was senior historian at the Japanese American National Museum and received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2007 and the Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award from the Manzanar Committee in 2014. He is also the author of Barbed Voices: Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social Disaster and editor of Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura.

“The significance of this work goes beyond the specific historical stories it tells. It is a timely reminder that each and every individual citizen must ask themselves, ‘What is the citizen’s rightful response to constitutional transgressions? What, indeed, is a citizen’s responsibility when racially based civil rights restrictions are imposed by an errant government?’”—Cherstin Lyon, Southern Oregon University  “A wonderful and most important contribution on the Japanese American tragedy that befell thisinnocent group during the Second World War. Yoshito Kuromiya performs an outstanding feat offilling in the details from the Heart Mountain resisters to the draft and exploring and explaining his personal reasons for choosing his course of action.”—Tetsuden Kashima, University of Washington