Cecilia M Tsu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5905924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecilia M Tsu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecilia M |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsu |
| SIGNATURE | TSU C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sex, Lies, and Agriculture
The historical record in the wake of Hayakawa’s death offers many clues about the nature of Japanese immigrant life in the early twentieth century. The paucity of women in early Japanese immigrant society had implications for gender relations that have rarely been examined, especially in the context of rural life where possibilities for women’s exploitation and agency appear in sharp relief. The peculiar conditions of early immigrant life in rura…
Our Voices, Our Histories
The March 2021 mass shooting in Georgia that resulted in the deaths of six women of Asian descent placed a spotlight on the longstanding connection between misogyny and anti-Asian racism in the United States, while also underscoring the need to recognize the complexity and diversity of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women’s experiences beyond victimization and exploitation. In this rich, wide-ranging collection that is more timely tha…
Refugee Community Gardens and the Politics of Self-Help
This article examines the history of community gardens set up for refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos in the 1980s as a window into debates surrounding resettlement, economic inequality, and welfare dependency in the United States. It argues that despite advocates’ emphasis on the continuity to the past that gardening has provided for refugees, refugee gardeners identified a vast disjuncture between their rural existence in Southeast Asia a…
If You Want to Plow Your Field, Don’t Kill Your Buffalo to Eat”
Research Article| April 01 2017 “If You Want to Plow Your Field, Don’t Kill Your Buffalo to Eat”: Hmong Farm Cooperatives and Refugee Resettlement in 1980s Minnesota Cecilia M. Tsu Cecilia M. Tsu Cecilia M. Tsu is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Garden of the World: Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California’s Santa Clara Valley (Oxford University Press, 2013). Her curr…
History
History Cecilia M. Tsu, Chair, Rudy Guevarra, and Chia Y. Vang Ellen Wu’s The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority (Princeton University Press, 2014). provides a fresh, penetrating analysis on how the historical processes of race making and the differential racialization of Chinese and Japanese Americans in the United States enabled them to be repositioned in the racial hierarchy, and in particular vis-à-vis bla…
Garden of the World
This book reclaims two intersecting histories overshadowed by the emergence of high tech-centered “Silicon Valley”: the agricultural past of California's Santa Clara County, and the history of the Asian farmers and laborers who cultivated the land. Focusing on the experiences of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos from 1880 to 1940, this book shows how the arrival of Asian immigrants transformed agricultural practices along with ideologies of race, …
Sex, Lies, and Agriculture
This article argues that the conditions of Japanese immigrants' lives in rural California produced unstable gender relations and patterns of intra-ethnic conflict. Early twentieth-century inquest records of the Santa Clara County coroner reveal tensions stemming from gender imbalance, exacerbated by the difficulties of farm life, racial marginalization, and circumscribed economic opportunity. Immigrant men equated success in America and status am…
Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture
Journal Article Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture Get access Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture. Edited by Chan Sucheng Hsu Madeline Y.. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. xx + 266 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $27.94, paper.) Cecilia Tsu Cecilia Tsu University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 40…
Independent of the Unskilled Chinaman
This study of boosterism and everyday agricultural labor practices in the Santa Clara Valley during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries reveals how the presence of Chinese immigrants in rural California forced white growers to reconceptualize the cherished family farm ideal in a new racial framework
Sex, Lies, and Agriculture
This article argues that the conditions of Japanese immigrants' lives in rural California produced unstable gender relations and patterns of intra-ethnic conflict. Early twentieth-century inquest records of the Santa Clara County coroner reveal tensions stemming from gender imbalance, exacerbated by the difficulties of farm life, racial marginalization, and circumscribed economic opportunity. Immigrant men equated success in America and status am…
Independent of the Unskilled Chinaman
This study of boosterism and everyday agricultural labor practices in the Santa Clara Valley during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries reveals how the presence of Chinese immigrants in rural California forced white growers to reconceptualize the cherished family farm ideal in a new racial framework
Sex, Lies, and Agriculture
This article argues that the conditions of Japanese immigrants' lives in rural California produced unstable gender relations and patterns of intra-ethnic conflict. Early twentieth-century inquest records of the Santa Clara County coroner reveal tensions stemming from gender imbalance, exacerbated by the difficulties of farm life, racial marginalization, and circumscribed economic opportunity. Immigrant men equated success in America and status am…
Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture
Journal Article Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture Get access Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture. Edited by Chan Sucheng Hsu Madeline Y.. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. xx + 266 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $27.94, paper.) Cecilia Tsu Cecilia Tsu University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 40…
Garden of the World
This book reclaims two intersecting histories overshadowed by the emergence of high tech-centered “Silicon Valley”: the agricultural past of California's Santa Clara County, and the history of the Asian farmers and laborers who cultivated the land. Focusing on the experiences of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos from 1880 to 1940, this book shows how the arrival of Asian immigrants transformed agricultural practices along with ideologies of race, …
History
History Cecilia M. Tsu, Chair, Rudy Guevarra, and Chia Y. Vang Ellen Wu’s The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority (Princeton University Press, 2014). provides a fresh, penetrating analysis on how the historical processes of race making and the differential racialization of Chinese and Japanese Americans in the United States enabled them to be repositioned in the racial hierarchy, and in particular vis-à-vis bla…
If You Want to Plow Your Field, Don’t Kill Your Buffalo to Eat”
Research Article| April 01 2017 “If You Want to Plow Your Field, Don’t Kill Your Buffalo to Eat”: Hmong Farm Cooperatives and Refugee Resettlement in 1980s Minnesota Cecilia M. Tsu Cecilia M. Tsu Cecilia M. Tsu is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Garden of the World: Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California’s Santa Clara Valley (Oxford University Press, 2013). Her curr…
Refugee Community Gardens and the Politics of Self-Help
This article examines the history of community gardens set up for refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos in the 1980s as a window into debates surrounding resettlement, economic inequality, and welfare dependency in the United States. It argues that despite advocates’ emphasis on the continuity to the past that gardening has provided for refugees, refugee gardeners identified a vast disjuncture between their rural existence in Southeast Asia a…
Our Voices, Our Histories
The March 2021 mass shooting in Georgia that resulted in the deaths of six women of Asian descent placed a spotlight on the longstanding connection between misogyny and anti-Asian racism in the United States, while also underscoring the need to recognize the complexity and diversity of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women’s experiences beyond victimization and exploitation. In this rich, wide-ranging collection that is more timely tha…
Sex, Lies, and Agriculture
The historical record in the wake of Hayakawa’s death offers many clues about the nature of Japanese immigrant life in the early twentieth century. The paucity of women in early Japanese immigrant society had implications for gender relations that have rarely been examined, especially in the context of rural life where possibilities for women’s exploitation and agency appear in sharp relief. The peculiar conditions of early immigrant life in rura…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (6 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Law (4 works)