Farming the Home PlaceCarefully researched, tightly written, well organized, and intelligently interpreted. An excellent text for classroom assignment. Sucheng Chan Pacific Historical Review In 1919, against a backdrop of a long history of anti Asian nativism, a handful of Japanese families established Cortez Colony in a bleak pocket of the San Joachin Valley. Valerie Matsumoto chronicles conflicts within the community as well as obstacles from without as the colonists