About the Author

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 editor of Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura.

Reviews

"Barbed Voices is an impressive achievement that demonstrates how Hansen has shaped out understanding of the Japanese American experience, particularly through his gathering and analysis of oral stories.'
--Southern California Quarterly

"Barbed Voices gets at the depth of the social trauma, the small and large acts of resistance, and the political maneuvering by Issei and Nisei leaders. . . Acts of resistance and the voices behind barbed wire are no longer silenced."
--Western Historical Quarterly

"A 'go-to' book for those interested in the Japanese American Internment."
--The Oral History Review

"A unique compilation of original scholarship. . . . Hansen offers a wealth of observations and issues he encountered and met through his decades of interviewing."
--Tetsuden Kashima, University of Washington, and author of Judgment without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II "This is a compelling and timely volume, making [Hansen's] work easily available to a new generation of scholars, students, and community members."
--Cherstin M. Lyon, California State University, San Bernardino, and author of Prisons and Patriots: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory