Garden of the world: Asian immigrants and the making of agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley

Independent of the unskilled chinaman : race, labor, and family farming -- Transplanted : the world of early Issei farmers -- Pioneering men and women : Japanese gender relations in rural California -- Defending the American farm home : Japanese farm families and the anti-Japanese movement -- From menace to model : reshaping the oriental problem -- Reds, communists, and fruit strikers : Filipinos and the Great Depression.

Garden of the World examines how overlapping waves of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino immigrants fundamentally altered the agricultural economy and landscape of the Santa Clara Valley as well as white residents' ideas about race, gender, and what it meant to be an American family farmer.