Barbed voices : oral history, resistance, and the World War II Japanese American social disaster / Arthur A. Hansen ; with a foreword by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Oral history and the Japanese American incarceration -- The Manzanar "riot" : an ethnic perspective -- A riot of voices : racial and ethnic variables in interactive oral history interviewing -- Taking it to the limit : cultural politics and community control in the Gila River Relocation Center, 1942-1943 -- Protest-resistance and the Heart Mountain experience : the revitalization of a robust Nikkei tradition -- Political ideology and participant observation : Nisei social scientists in the Japanese evacuation and resettlement study, 1942-1945 -- Sergeant Ben Kuroki's perilous 1944 "home mission" : contested loyalty and patriotism in Japanese American detention centers -- Peculiar odyssey : newsman Jimmie Omura's removal from and regeneration within Nikkei society, history, and memory -- Epilogue.