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Mark Rawitsch - House on Lemon Street - 9781607322719 - V9781607322719
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House on Lemon Street

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Description for House on Lemon Street Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, 60 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; G; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 177 x 22. Weight in Grams: 722.
In 1915, Jukichi and Ken Harada purchased a house on Lemon Street in Riverside, California. Close to their restaurant, church, and children's school, the house should have been a safe and healthy family home. Before the purchase, white neighbors objected because of the Haradas' Japanese ancestry, and the California Alien Land Law denied them real-estate ownership because they were not citizens. To bypass the law Mr. Harada bought the house in the names of his three youngest children, who were American-born citizens. Neighbors protested again, and the first Japanese American court test of the California Alien Land Law of 1913-The ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Colorado United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
426
Place of Publication
Colorado, United States
ISBN
9781607322719
SKU
V9781607322719
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Mark Rawitsch
Mark Rawitsch is Dean of Instruction at Mendocino College and a founding member of the Harada House National Historic Landmark Ad-Hoc Advisory Council of the City of Riverside.

Reviews for House on Lemon Street
"Mark Rawitsch's The House on Lemon Street ranks with Valerie Matsumoto's Farming the Home Place, Yasuko Takezawa's Breaking the Silence, and Linda Tamura's Nikkei Soldiers Break Their Silence as among the very best books in Japanese American studies to simultaneously make a major contribution to that field of study plus local and public history. What the sterling works by Matsumoto, ... Read more

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