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

by Valerie J. Matsumoto

Book Overview

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 challenges of settlement, the setbacks of the Great Depression, the hardships of World War II internment, and the opportunities of postwar reconstruction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801481155
• ISBN13: 9780801481154
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher