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Transborder Los Angeles : an unknown transpacific history of Japanese-Mexican relations / Yu Tokunaga

Author
Tokunaga, Yū, 1982-
Published
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Physical Description
xv, 257 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm

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Contents
The 1924 Immigration Act and its unintended consequence in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands -- The deepening of Japanese-Mexican relations in triracial Los Angeles -- Transpacific borderlands : Japanese farmers and Mexican workers in the 1933 El Monte Berry Strike -- Ethnic solidarity or interethnic accommodation : the 1936 Venice Celery Strike -- Japanese internment as an agricultural labor crisis : wartime debates over food security versus military necessity -- Enduring interethnic trust in Rancho San Pedro -- Conclusion.
Summary
"Focusing on Los Angeles farmland during the years between the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Japanese Internment in 1942, Transborder Los Angeles weaves together the narratives of Mexican and Japanese immigrants into a single transpacific history. In this book, Tokunaga moves from international relations between Japan, Mexico, and the US to the Southern California farmland--where ethnic Japanese and Mexicans played a significant role in developing local agriculture, one of the major industries of LA County before World War II. Japanese, Mexicans, and white Americans developed a unique triracial hierarchy in farmland that generated not only conflicts but also interethnic accommodation by intersecting local and international concerns beyond the Pacific Ocean and the U.S.-Mexico border. By viewing their experiences in a single narrative form, Tokunaga breaks new ground, demonstrating the close relationships between the ban on Japanese immigration, Mexican farmworkers' strikes, wartime Japanese removal, and the Bracero Program"--
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ISBN
9780520379787 (hardcover)
0520379780 (hardcover)
9780520379794 (paperback)
0520379799 (paperback)
9780520976931 electronic publication
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index.
Endowment Note
The Hastings Libraries Endowment
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