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The World of Early Issei Farmers
Focusing on the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants in the Santa Clara Valley at the turn of the twentieth century, this chapter takes up their establishment in agriculture and shows how they quickly entered economic niches already established by Chinese farmers and farm laborers. While white promoters and settlers placed a higher cultural premium on orchard fruit growing, setting it apart from the variety of horticultural production in the region and envisioning a labor system divided along the lines of race, gender, and crop, the Japanese, like their Chinese counterparts, engaged in all types of horticulture and were essential to the Valley's agricultural landscape. In the period of transition from Chinese to Japanese labor, interethnic relations flourished as well, reflecting the presence of an ethnic economy in the Valley that was not wholly dependent on whites.
Keywords: Japanese immigrants, agriculture, labor, Chinese immigrants, interethnic relations
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