Transborder Los Angeles
An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations
Format:Hardback
Publisher:University of California Press
Published:3rd Jan '23
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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, 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. 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. Viewing these 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.
"Tokunaga’s book, by drawing on multiple languages and emphasizing the fluidity and dynamism in the construction of race, ethnicity, and national boundaries between Japan, Mexico, and the United States, offers more than enough to think about in terms of transnational histories of Japanese America." * California History *
"Transborder Los Angeles is a novel and fascinating study of Southern California agriculture during the interwar period." * Pacific Historical Review *
"One of the many strengths of this work is Tokunaga’s skilled use of English-language, Spanish-language, and Japanese-language sources. This allows Tokunaga to intertwine the varied and diverse perspectives of Japanese immigrants in Mexico and the United States, Mexican immigrants in the United States, and the governments of all three nations into one complex and compelling narrative." * Journal of American History *
"The book is accessible to the reader and highlights the delicate relationship between transborder communities, Japanese immigrant farmers, Mexican laborers, and how they competed for power."
* Agricultural History *
ISBN: 9780520379787
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
Weight: 499g
274 pages