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Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition

by Jean Pfaelzer

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This sweeping and groundbreaking work presents the shocking and violent history of ethnic cleansing against Chinese Americans from the Gold Rush era to the turn of the century.

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Driven Out exposes 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 carry photo identity cards, more than one hundred thousand joined the largest mass civil disobedience to date in the United States. The first Chinese Americans were marched out and starved out. But even facing brutal pogroms, they stood up for their civil rights. This is a story that defines us as a nation and marks our humanity.

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"Driven Out is the most comprehensive history of the period, written with a keen eye for the horrifying, heartbreaking, and often uplifting and triumphant details."--Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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  • Title Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
  • Author Jean Pfaelzer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Publication date 2008-08-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780520256941 / 0520256948
  • Weight 1.52 lbs (0.69 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.03 x 1.06 in (22.91 x 15.32 x 2.69 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Chinese
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects California - History, Local, Chinese Americans - California - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008013454
  • Dewey Decimal Code 979.400

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  • New York Times Book Review, 09/14/2008, Page 28

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Jean Pfaelzer is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Delaware. She is author of The 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.
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