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Driven Out
Jean Pfaelzer
其他書名
The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
出版University of California Press, 2008-08
主題History / GeneralHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)History / WorldHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)History / Social HistorySocial Science / Minority StudiesSocial Science / DiscriminationSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander StudiesSocial Science / Violence in SocietySocial Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
ISBN05202569489780520256941
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=koQalf4HiZ4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.