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Early-20th-century settlers in Los Angeles County's South Bay region found fallow rancho land worthy of cultivation, as well as roads and railways to move produce to markets. First-generation Japanese Issei immigrants became pioneering strawberry, vegetable, and flower growers and cannery fishermen. Their fields blanketed the landscape between oil derricks and along sloughs and the dry-farmed coastline. Families pooled resources and built Japanese language schools for their Americanborn Nisei children that doubled as meeting halls. Small mom-and-pop businesses and services sprang up in Gardena and elsewhere, catering to Japanese neighborhoods. The evacuation, detention, and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II devastated their sense of belonging and livelihoods that had taken 40 years to establish. Today South Bay is home to multigenerational Japanese and Asian Americans who continue that legacy of industry, beautification, and diversity.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:073855961X
ISBN13:9780738559612
Release Date:February 2009
Publisher:Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Length:128 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.5" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
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Great for history buffs!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
What a great book for history lovers, especially natives or residents of the South Bay. Having grown up in Gardena, many of my friends' parents had been "interred" (imprisioned) during the second World War. This book shows who many of those Japanese Americans were and are. Invaluable photos chronicle the swiftness of history and remind us how America has evolved.
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