Monthly Archives: February 2012

Remembering ‘Sonny Boy’

“Sonny Boy” – Noboru Taguma   By CHERSTIN M. LYON   Noboru Taguma was a farm boy. He grew up understanding the meaning of hard work, responsibility, and respect for his elders. At the age of nine, he already understood … Continue reading

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Prof. Art Hansen’s review of new book on Tucsonian resisters and Gordon Hirabayshi

A lifelong relationship: Citizens and the state January 1, 2012 By ART HANSEN, Nichi Bei Weekly Contributor http://www.nichibei.org/2012/01/a-lifelong-relationship-citizens-and-the-state/ PRISONS AND PATRIOTS: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory By Cherstin M. Lyon (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011, 233 pp., … Continue reading

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New book on resisters examines wartime definition of patriotism, civil disobedience

October 20, 2011 By Nichi Bei Weekly Staff CHICAGO — A new book being published by Temple University Press in November is re-examining wartime definitions of citizenship, patriotism, prisons, and civil disobedience through the lives of Gordon Hirabayashi and a … Continue reading

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