The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl

Synopsis

Introduction: To The Farmer In All Of Us: Agricultural Citizenship As Racial Gatekeeping -- Settlers Galore, But No Free Land: White Citizenship And The Right To Land Ownership In Factories In The Field And Of Human Kindness -- From Farmer To Farmworker: Representing The Dust Bowl Migration -- The Clouded Citizenship Of Rooted Families: Japanese American Agrarianism In Rafu Shimpo, Kashu Mainichi, And Treadmill -- The Earth Trembled For Days: Denaturalizing Racial Citizenship In Hisaye Yamamoto's Fiction -- The American Earth: Reclaiming Land And Nation In America Is In The Heart And Strangers In Our Fields -- Elixers Of Death: The United Farm Workers And The Modern Environmental Movement -- Fit Citizens And Poisoned Farmworkers: Consumer Citizenship In The Alternative Flood Movement -- Tienes Una Madre Aqui: Environmentalism And Migration In The Twenty-first Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Sarah D. Wald. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.