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The house on Lemon Street : Japanese pioneers and the American dream
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Discusses the little known early-twentieth century court battle of Jukichi and Ken Harada, Japanese immigrants, to keep their home in Riverside, California, which they purchased in 1915 in the name...
Discusses the little known early-twentieth century court battle of Jukichi and Ken Harada, Japanese immigrants, to keep their home in Riverside, California, which they purchased in 1915 in the names of their three young American-born children because the California Alien Land Law prohibited immigrants from owning real estate.
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- Creator
- Mark Howland Rawitsch ; afterword by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 1607321661, 9781607321651, 9781457117374, 9781607321668, 9781457117350, 1607321653, 1457117355, 1607322714, 1457117371
- OCLC
- ocn769429702, ocn795127255
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-378) and index.
- Here Is Your Chance -- The Schoolteacher and the Samurai's Daughter -- Here to Stay -- In the Shadow of the Mission Inn -- Pilgrim's Progress -- Little Lamb Gone To Jesus -- The People of California Versus Harada -- World War and a Basket of Apples -- Face to Face -- Keep California White -- The Only Time I See the Sun -- Farewell to Riverside -- Leaving Lemon Street Behind -- Camp -- Blue Bandanas and an Ironwood Club -- From Issei to Nisei -- Questions of Loyalty -- It's Up To You, Medic -- Home -- Epilogue: Sumi's House -- Afterword -- Glossary of Japanese Terms
Subjects
- Harada, Jukichi, 1875-1944.
- Harada, Ken, 1881-1943.
- Harada, Jukichi, 1875-1944 -- Family.
- Harada, Jukichi, 1875-1944 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Japanese Americans -- California -- Riverside -- Biography.
- Immigrants -- California -- Riverside -- Biography.
- Japanese Americans -- Civil rights -- Case studies.
- Immigrants -- Civil rights -- United States -- Case studies.
- Riverside (Calif.) -- Biography.
- Riverside (Calif.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.