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Driven Out The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans

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ISBN-10: 0520256948

ISBN-13: 9780520256941

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jean Pfaelzer

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Driven Outexposes a shocking story of ethnic cleansing in California and the Pacific Northwest when the first Chinese Americans were rounded up and purged from more than three hundred communities by lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians. From 1848 into the twentieth century, Chinatowns burned across the West as Chinese miners and merchants, lumberjacks and fieldworkers, prostitutes and merchants' wives were violently loaded onto railroad cars or steamers, marched out of town, or killed. But the Chinese fought back--with arms, strikes, and lawsuits and by flatly refusing to leave. When red posters appeared on barns and windows across the United States urging the Chinese to refuse to…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.06" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Jean Pfaelzeris Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Delaware. She is author ofThe Utopian Novel in America, 1886-1896: The Politics of Form,among other books. She was Executive Director of the National Labor Law Center and was appointed to the Washington DC Commission for Women.

List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Chinese Called It Pai Hua, or The Driven Out
Gold!: "Peaceably if We Can, Forcibly if We must"
Dead Branches
The Woman's Tale: "In Case I Should Be Kidnapped"
The Eureka Method: "We Have No Chinese"
The Truckee Method: Fire and Ice
The Chinese Rewrite The Letter of The Law
A Litany of Hate: The 1880s
The Dog Tag Law
Conclusion: "No Place for a Chinaman"
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index