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Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm

By David Mas Masumoto

Book information

Publisher
Red Hen Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781636280783, 2022016771, 2022016772, 9781636280776, 9781636281032
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
29 MB (30755585 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2023-03-16 03:30:39
Biography & Autobiography; History; Nonfiction; BI

Description

I discover a "lost" aunt, separated from our
family due to racism and discrimination against the disabled. She had a mental
disability due to childhood meningitis. She was taken away in 1942 when all
Japanese Americans were considered the enemy and imprisoned. She then became a
"ward" of the state. We believed she had died, but 70 years later
found her alive and living a few miles from our family farm. How did she survive?
Why was she kept hidden? How did both shame and resilience empower my family to
forge forward in a land that did not want them? I am haunted and driven to
explore my identity and the meaning of family—especially as farmers tied to the
land. I uncover family secrets that bind us to a sense of history buried in the
earth that we work and a sense of place that defines us.

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