Farming the Home Place : : A Japanese Community in California, 1919–1982 /

Farming the Home Place : : A Japanese Community in California, 1919–1982 / / Valerie J. Matsumoto.

In 1919, against a backdrop of a long history of anti-Asian nativism, a handful of Japanese families established Cortez Colony in a bleak pocket of the San Joachin Valley. Valerie Matsumoto chronicles conflicts within the community as well as obstacles from without as the colonists responded to the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Matsumoto, Valerie J.,
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Matsumoto, Valerie J.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1993
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 10 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Cultivating a Fallow Field
  • Chapter 1. Taking Root in a Harsh Land
  • Chapter 2. Growing Up in Cortez: The Prewar Years
  • Chapter 3. Merced Assembly Center
  • Chapter 4. Amache
  • Chapter 5. Reweaving the Web of Community
  • Chapter 6. Rice and Reflection
  • Conclusion. Sustaining Fruit
  • Appendix A. Notes on Research
  • Appendix B. Oral History Interview Questions
  • Appendix C. Recipes from Cortez, with List of Terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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