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Carla Tengan is an associate curator at the Japanese American National Museum. She wrote this article while researching her dissertation, “Cultivating Communities: Japanese American Gardeners in Southern California, 1910-1980,” which she completed in 2006. She also served as a humanities scholar and on the project team for Landscaping America: Beyond the Japanese Garden, currently showing at the National Museum through October 21, 2007.
Updated July 2007