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Secret harvests : a hidden story of separation, silence, shame, and the resilience of a family farm / David Mas Masumoto.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Masumoto, David Mas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Masumoto, David Mas--Family.
- Masumoto, David Mas.
- Sugimoto, Shizuko, 1919-2013.
- Sugimoto, Shizuko.
- Japanese American farmers--California--Biography--Fresno.
- Japanese American farmers.
- Fresno (Calif.)--Biography.
- Fresno (Calif.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Pasadena, California : Red Hen Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "A family separated by racism against Japanese Americans and the discrimination of people with developmental disabilities--reunited seventy years later, returning to their roots on a farm and bound by family secrets"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Also by David Mas Masumoto
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: I Farm with Ghosts
- PART ONE: ARRIVAL
- 1. The Call-I Thought I Knew My Family
- 2. Shikata ga nai-It Can't Be Helped
- 3. Footprints of the Past
- 4. The Foreign Language of Work
- 5. Landless-A Handful of Raisins
- PART TWO: SEPARATION AND THE TIES THAT BIND
- 6. Diagnosis-A Child Forever Transformed
- 7. The Assault
- 8. Temples
- PART THREE: PRISON
- 9. The Taking and The Promise
- 10. Bedlam
- 11. Faces We Wear-The Mongoloid Idiot
- 12. Camp Gardens
- PART FOUR: TRIALS
- 13. First Meeting
- 14. No Place to Go
- 15. The Secret of Silence-Letting Go
- 16. The Great Escape
- 17. Blue Moon
- PART FIVE: WALLS OF SECURITY
- 18. Family Reunion
- 19. Lost Altars-Our Butsudan
- PART SIX: INITIATION
- 20. Family Letters
- 21. Photo Identity-Gold Star Mothers
- 22. The Face of Anger
- 23. Sunnyside
- 24. Redress
- PART SEVEN: STRUGGLE FOR ACCEPTANCE
- 25. Awakening
- 26. Tōrō Nagashi-Floating Lanterns
- 27. The Great Fair
- 28. Caregivers
- PART EIGHT: BELONGING
- 29. Farming as a Radical Act
- 30. Passing with Tennis Shoes and Blinking Lights
- 31. Farm Walks
- Epilogue: The Wall and the Bench
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-63628-078-1
- OCLC:
- 1357019134
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