Transborder Los Angeles

Yu Tokunaga is Associate Professor of History at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies with a joint appointment at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.

• ContentsList of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Exploring Japanese-Mexican Relations in Los Angeles and the US-MexicoBorderlands1. The 1924 Immigration Act and Its Unintended Consequence in the US-Mexico Borderlands2. The Deepening of Japanese-Mexican Relations in Triracial Los Angeles3. Transpacific Borderlands: Japanese Farmers and Mexican Workers in the 1933 El Monte Berry Strike4. Ethnic Solidarity or Interethnic Accommodation: The 1936 Venice Celery Strike5. Japanese Internment as an Agricultural Labor Crisis: Wartime Debates over Food Security versus Military Necessity6. Enduring Interethnic Trust in Rancho San PedroConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"Tokunaga’s book, by drawing on multiple languages and emphasizing the fluidity and dynamism in the construction of race, ethnicity, and national boundaries between Japan, Mexico, and the United States, offers more than enough to think about in terms of transnational histories of Japanese America."