TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mockett,Marie Mutsuki
TI  - American harvest: God, country, and farming in the heartland 
SN  - 9781644450178
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Minneapolis, Minnesota
PB  - Graywolf Press
KW  - Mockett, Marie Mutsuki
KW  - Family farms
KW  - Nebraska
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Evangelicalism
KW  - United States
KW  - Middle West
KW  - Rural conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-396)
N2  - Inheriting her father's 7,000 acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, the author accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland, peeling back layers of the American story, the politics of food and the culture of the Great Plains; For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett's father was raised. Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it.  In American Harvest, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family's fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth's crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as "the divide," inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields, attends church, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals "not white," but who people she encounters can't quite categorize. Publisher
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