Title The nature of California : race, citizenship, and farming since the Dust Bowl / Sarah D. Wald

Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "To the Farmer in All of Us": Agricultural Citizenship as Racial Gatekeeping; Chapter 1 "Settlers Galore, but No Free Land": White Citizenship and the Right to Land Ownership in Factories in the Field and Of Human Kindness; Chapter 2 From Farmer to Farmworker: Representing the Dust Bowl Migration; Chapter 3 The "Clouded Citizenship" of Rooted Families: Japanese American Agrarianism in Rafu Shimpo, Kashu Mainichi, and Treadmill; Chapter 4 "The Earth Trembled for Days": Denaturalizing Racial Citizenship in Hisaye Yamamoto's Fiction Chapter 5 "The American Earth": Reclaiming Land and Nation in America Is in the Heart and Strangers in Our FieldsChapter 6 "Elixirs of Death": The United Farm Workers and the Modern Environmental Movement; Chapter 7 Fit Citizens and Poisoned Farmworkers: Consumer Citizenship in the Alternative Food Movement; Epilogue: "Tienes una Madre Aquí": Environmentalism and Migration in the Twenty-First Century; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273) and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Agriculture in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature. Citizenship in literature. Race in literature. Nature in literature. Ecocriticism. American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Agriculture in literature American literature Citizenship in literature Ecocriticism Literature National characteristics, American, in literature Nature in literature Race in literature SUBJECT California -- In literature Subject California Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2021692768 ISBN 9780295806587 0295806583

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