Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm Masumoto David Mas
Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm Masumoto David Mas I discover a "lost" aunt, separated from our family due to racism and discrimination against the…
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Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm Masumoto David Mas
I discover a "lost" aunt, separated from our family due to racism and discrimination against the disabled. She was taken away in 1942 when all Japanese Americans were considered the enemy and imprisoned. She had a mental disability due to childhood meningitis.
We believed she had died, but 70 years later found her alive and living a few miles from our family farm. She then became a "ward" of the state. How did she survive?
Why was she kept hidden? How did both shame and resilience empower my family to forge forward in a land that did not want them? I am haunted and driven to explore my identity and the meaning of family--especially as farmers tied to the land.
I uncover family secrets that bind us to a sense of history buried in the earth that we work and a sense of place that defines