Japanese Americans of the South Bay

by Dale Ann Sato and Japanese American Historical Mapping Project

Book Overview

Early-20th-century settlers in Los Angeles County's South Bay region found fallow rancho land worthy of cultivation, as well as roads and railways to move produce to markets. First-generation Japanese Issei immigrants became pioneering strawberry, vegetable, and flower growers and cannery fishermen. Their fields blanketed the landscape between oil derricks and along sloughs and the dry-farmed coastline. Families pooled resources and built Japanese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073855961X
• ISBN13: 9780738559612
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great for history buffs!

What a great book for history lovers, especially natives or residents of the South Bay. Having grown up in Gardena, many of my friends' parents had been "interred" (imprisioned) during the second World War. This book shows who many of those Japanese Americans were and are. Invaluable photos chronicle the swiftness of history and remind us how America has evolved.