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Cultivating communities: Japanese American gardeners in southern California, 1910--1980.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cultivating communities: Japanese American gardeners in southern California, 1910--1980./
Author:	Tengan, Carla S.
Description:	193 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Robert Lee; Karl Jacoby.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-08A.
Subject:	Agriculture, Horticulture. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3227947
ISBN:	9780542821837

Cultivating communities: Japanese American gardeners in southern California, 1910--1980.
Tengan, Carla S.

Cultivating communities: Japanese American gardeners in southern California, 1910--1980. - 193 p.

Advisers: Robert Lee; Karl Jacoby.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2006.

This dissertation examines the instrumental role of Japanese American gardeners in the development of southern California's diverse communities. As persons who shaped both natural and cultural environments, the gardeners cultivated the green space of Japanese-style gardens and residential lawns even as they lived in a climate of racial and ethnic alienization. Such ethnic tensions manifested themselves on both national and local levels for the greater part of the twentieth century, particularly in political legislation, garden aesthetics, and American popular culture. Additionally, the Southern California Gardeners' Federation, the largest and most prominent organization to represent the Japanese American gardeners' interests in the southland, played a crucial role in transforming the professional image and promoting the social influence of the gardeners in the latter half of the twentieth century. Drawing upon these areas of inquiry, "Cultivating Communities" seeks to answer the question, "In what ways did Japanese American gardeners influence natural and human communities, both 'alien' and 'native,' in twentieth century southern California?" This alien-native dichotomy manifests itself in constructions of race and ethnicity, as well as in analyses of the natural environment. In many ways, Japanese American gardeners bridged the divide between these two seemingly opposite categories by virtue of their ethnicity and their profession. They occupied a unique place in both society and nature.

ISBN: 9780542821837Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017832
Agriculture, Horticulture.

Cultivating communities: Japanese American gardeners in southern California, 1910--1980.
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520 $a An analysis of monthly publications by the Southern California Gardeners' Federation from the mid-1950s through the late 1970s constitutes a significant portion of the research material in this dissertation. Studies in Asian American and environmental history, Japanese American vernacular newspapers, and representations of Japanese American gardeners in American popular culture are also key elements in this study.
520 $a The ultimate goal of this dissertation is to preserve and disseminate a segment of the Japanese American gardener's history before the active population disappears entirely. For as younger generations enter the profession in disproportionately small numbers, the legacy of the gardeners in southern California will not depend upon ethnic continuity in the industry, but upon the ways in which their contributions to both human and natural communities are documented and understood.
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