Valerie J. Matsumoto is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Farming the Home Place, enriched by material gathered from over eighty interviews that supplement research into local archival and manuscript collections, is a sensitive, subtle, even understated book. It will speak to a wide variety of audiences, both academic and popular, for its implications are many for the understanding of the nature of community and ethnicity in American life.- Gordon H. Chang (Journal of American Ethnic History) Part oral history, part sociology, Farming the Home Place is the chronicle of three generations in the life of a Japanese-American farming community in California's San Joachin Valley. Matsumoto writes clearly, knowledgeably, and with affection for her subject, weaving the story of Cortez, a seventy-four-year-old planned agricultural colony, into the larger tapestry of twentieth-century Japanese-American experience. Her extensive interviews with dozens of Cortez residents hep create a living portrait of a stable yet constantly evolving community.- Lauren Kessler (The Journal of American History) Carefully researched, tightly written, well organized, and intelligently interpreted.... An excellent text for classroom assignment.- Sucheng Chan (Pacific Historical Review)

Valerie J. Matsumoto is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Farming the Home Place, enriched by material gathered from over eighty interviews that supplement research into local archival and manuscript collections, is a sensitive, subtle, even understated book. It will speak to a wide variety of audiences, both academic and popular, for its implications are many for the understanding of the nature of community and ethnicity in American life.- Gordon H. Chang (Journal of American Ethnic History) Part oral history, part sociology, Farming the Home Place is the chronicle of three generations in the life of a Japanese-American farming community in California's San Joachin Valley. Matsumoto writes clearly, knowledgeably, and with affection for her subject, weaving the story of Cortez, a seventy-four-year-old planned agricultural colony, into the larger tapestry of twentieth-century Japanese-American experience. Her extensive interviews with dozens of Cortez residents hep create a living portrait of a stable yet constantly evolving community.- Lauren Kessler (The Journal of American History) Carefully researched, tightly written, well organized, and intelligently interpreted.... An excellent text for classroom assignment.- Sucheng Chan (Pacific Historical Review)

Valerie J. Matsumoto is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Farming the Home Place, enriched by material gathered from over eighty interviews that supplement research into local archival and manuscript collections, is a sensitive, subtle, even understated book. It will speak to a wide variety of audiences, both academic and popular, for its implications are many for the understanding of the nature of community and ethnicity in American life.- Gordon H. Chang (Journal of American Ethnic History) Part oral history, part sociology, Farming the Home Place is the chronicle of three generations in the life of a Japanese-American farming community in California's San Joachin Valley. Matsumoto writes clearly, knowledgeably, and with affection for her subject, weaving the story of Cortez, a seventy-four-year-old planned agricultural colony, into the larger tapestry of twentieth-century Japanese-American experience. Her extensive interviews with dozens of Cortez residents hep create a living portrait of a stable yet constantly evolving community.- Lauren Kessler (The Journal of American History) Carefully researched, tightly written, well organized, and intelligently interpreted.... An excellent text for classroom assignment.- Sucheng Chan (Pacific Historical Review)