Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations

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Yu Tokunaga

Transborder Los Angeles

An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations

Yu Tokunaga

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University of California Press
18 October 2022

History of the Americas; Ethnic studies; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Black & Asian studies; Local history

Series: Western Histories

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.

By: Yu Tokunaga
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 12
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780520379787
ISBN 10: 0520379780
Series: Western Histories
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 18 October 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Exploring Japanese-Mexican Relations in Los Angeles and the US-Mexico Borderlands 1. The 1924 Immigration Act and Its Unintended Consequence in the US-Mexico Borderlands 2. The Deepening of Japanese-Mexican Relations in Triracial Los Angeles 3. Transpacific Borderlands: Japanese Farmers and Mexican Workers in the 1933 El Monte Berry Strike 4. Ethnic Solidarity or Interethnic Accommodation: The 1936 Venice Celery Strike 5. Japanese Internment as an Agricultural Labor Crisis: Wartime Debates over Food Security versus Military Necessity 6. Enduring Interethnic Trust in Rancho San Pedro Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Yu Tokunaga is Associate Professor of History at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies with a joint appointment at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.

Reviews for Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations

"""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 *"