Nothing left in my hands
Subtitle: the Issei of a rural California town, 1900-1942
By: Kazuko Nakane ; foreword by Naomi Hirahara.
Series: BayTree books
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9781597141093
Subjects: Japanese Americans -- California -- Pajaro River Valley -- History -- 20th century; Japanese Americans -- California -- Watsonville -- History -- 20th century; Japanese Americans -- California -- Watsonville -- Interviews; Immigrants -- California -- Watsonville -- Interviews; Farmers -- California -- Watsonville -- Interviews; Community life -- California -- Watsonville -- History -- 20th century; Agriculture -- California -- Pajaro River Valley -- History -- 20th century; Agriculture -- California -- Watsonville -- History -- 20th century; Watsonville (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century; Pajaro River Valley (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Nothing Left in My Hands is a moving portrait of the lives of early Japanese immigrants in Pajaro Valley, California. Regarded as highly skilled berry growers, the Issei--first-generation Japanese immigrants--were instrumental in the development of strawberry farming in the region. Nakane interviewed those still living in the area in the early 1980s and, in Nothing Left in My Hands, used their own words to narrate their progress in America, from their lives as farmers to the trying periods of anti-immigrant legislation and banishment to internment camps during World War II, and finally to the resumption of their lives after the war.
Notes: Originally published: Seattle, Wash. : Young Pine Press, c1985.

Includes bibliographical references.