Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California 1919-1982 Reissue Edition

by Valerie J. Matsumoto (Author)

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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. Tracing the evolution of gender and family roles of members of Cortez as well as their cultural, religious, and educational institutions, she documents the persistence and flexibility of ethnic community and demonstrates its range of meaning from geographic location and web of social relations to state of mind.

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"Farming the Home Place, enriched by material gathered from over eighty interviews that supplement research into local archival and manuscript collections, is a sensitive, subtle, even understated book. It will speak to a wide variety of audiences, both academic and popular, for its implications are many for the understanding of the nature of community and ethnicity in American life."

-- Gordon H. Chang ― Journal of American Ethnic History

"Part oral history, part sociology, Farming the Home Place is the chronicle of three generations in the life of a Japanese-American farming community in California's San Joachin Valley. Matsumoto writes clearly, knowledgeably, and with affection for her subject, weaving the story of Cortez, a seventy-four-year-old planned agricultural colony, into the larger tapestry of twentieth-century Japanese-American experience. Her extensive interviews with dozens of Cortez residents hep create a living portrait of a stable yet constantly evolving community."

-- Lauren Kessler ― The Journal of American History

"Carefully researched, tightly written, well organized, and intelligently interpreted.... An excellent text for classroom assignment."

-- Sucheng Chan ― Pacific Historical Review

About the Author

Valerie J. Matsumoto is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cornell University Press; Reissue edition (December 23, 1993)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0801481155
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0801481154
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.62 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #311,859 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #40 in Province & Local Canadian History
- #178 in Asian American Studies (Books)
- #198 in Sociology of Rural Areas

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Irene

A little repetitive in some places but over-all a good read.

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Well written and very interesting. A little repetitive in some places but over-all a good read.

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Well written and provides a somewhat different outcome to the incarceration of the farming families of these California communities.

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Michael L. Davis

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A good analysis of the difficulties faced by Japanese immigrants in Cortez (central) California before and after WWII.

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marcia

History of the Cortez Nikkei Community

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2001

This is a very unique book about the experience of the Cortez colony, the last Japanese agricultural community formed by Abiko in 1919. It is written from a feminist perspective and thus gives unique insight into the Nikkei experience. Matsumoto conducted over 80 oral histories in tracing the history of this colony's foundation, through the relocation camp experience, and through the agriculture upheaval of the 70's and early 80's. If you are a serious historian of the Asian American experience, I strongly recommend this book for your collection.

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