Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations Volume 12 Tokunaga Yu
Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations Volume 12 Tokunaga Yu Focusing on Los Angeles farmland during the years between the Immigration Act of 1924 and…
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Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations Volume 12 Tokunaga Yu
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. Japanese, Mexicans, and white Americans developed a unique triracial hierarchy in farmland that generated both conflict and interethnic accommodation by bringing together local issues and international concerns beyond the Pacific Ocean and the US-Mexico border. In this book, Yu 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.
Viewing these experiences in a single narrative form, Tokunaga breaks new ground,