 | Farming the Home Place: A Japanese Community in California, 1919–1982 Subjects: Japanese Americans -- California -- Cortez -- Social life and customs; Farm life -- California -- Cortez; Cortez (Calif.) -- Social life and customs; 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... Valerie J. Matsumoto is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. |
