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

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

xv, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Tokunaga, Yu, 1982- Transborder los angeles. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

English

December 13, 2022

Western histories ; 12.

Includes bibliographical references and index.