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The House on Lemon Street : Japanese Pioneers and the American Dream /

In 1915, Jukichi and Ken Harada purchased a house on Lemon Street in Riverside, California. Close to their restaurant, church, and children's school, the house should have been a safe and healthy family home. Before the purchase, white neighbors objected because of the Haradas' Japanese an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rawitsch, Mark Howland, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In 1915, Jukichi and Ken Harada purchased a house on Lemon Street in Riverside, California. Close to their restaurant, church, and children's school, the house should have been a safe and healthy family home. Before the purchase, white neighbors objected because of the Haradas' Japanese ancestry, and the California Alien Land Law denied them real-estate ownership because they were not citizens. To bypass the law Mr. Harada bought the house in the names of his three youngest children, who were American-born citizens. Neighbors protested again, and the first Japanese American court test of the.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (426 pages).
ISBN:9781607321668