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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | “To the Farmer in All of Us”: Agricultural Citizenship as Racial Gatekeeping
1. “Settlers Galore, but No Free Land”: White Citizenship and the Right to Land Ownership in “Factories in the Field” and “Of Human Kindness”
2. From Farmer to Farmworker: Representing the Dust Bowl Migration
3. The “Clouded Citizenship” of Rooted Families: Japanese American Agrarianism in “Rafu Shimpo”, “Kashu Mainichi”, and “Treadmill”
4. “The Earth Trembled for Days”: Denaturalizing Racial Citizenship in Hisaye Yamamoto’s Fiction
5. “The American Earth”: Reclaiming Land and Nation in “America Is in the Heart” and “Strangers in Our Fields”
6. “Elixirs of Death”: The United Farm Workers and the Modern Environmental Movement
7. Fit Citizens and Poisoned Farmworkers: Consumer Citizenship in the Alternative Food Movement
Epilogue | “Tienes una Madre Aquí”: Environmentalism and Migration in the Twenty-First Century
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