Farming the Home Place : a Japanese Community in California, 1919-1982 /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Matsumoto, Valerie J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Japanese Americans > California > Cortez > Social life and customs.
Farm life > California > Cortez.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Farm life
Japanese Americans > Social life and customs
Manners and customs
Cortez (Calif.) > Social life and customs.
California > Cortez
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments / Matsumoto, Valerie J.
  • 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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