Valerie J. Matsumoto is Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of "Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982" (1993). Blake Allmendinger is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of "The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture" (1992).