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The Nature of California - Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl (Paperback)
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The Nature of California - Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl (Paperback)
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The California farmlands have long served as a popular symbol of
America's natural abundance and endless opportunity. Yet, from John
Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Carlos Bulosan's America Is in
the Heart to Helena Maria Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus,
many novels, plays, movies, and songs have dramatized the brutality
and hardships of working in the California fields. Little
scholarship has focused on what these cultural productions tell us
about who belongs in America, and in what ways they are allowed to
belong. In The Nature of California, Sarah Wald analyzes this
legacy and its consequences by examining the paradoxical
representations of California farmers and farmworkers from the Dust
Bowl migration to present-day movements for food justice and
immigrant rights. Analyzing fiction, nonfiction, news coverage,
activist literature, memoirs, and more, Wald gives us a new way of
thinking through questions of national belonging by probing the
relationships among race, labor, and landownership. Bringing
together ecocriticism and critical race theory, she pays special
attention to marginalized groups, examining how Japanese American
journalists, Filipino workers, United Farm Workers members, and
contemporary immigrants-rights activists, among others, pushed back
against the standard narratives of landownership and citizenship.
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