Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese AmericansDriven 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. |
Contents
GOLD PEACEABLY IF WE CAN FORCIBLY IF WE MUST | 3 |
DEAD BRANCHES | 47 |
THE WOMANS TALE IN CASE I SHOULD BE KIDNAPPED | 65 |
THE EUREKA METHOD WE HAVE NO CHINESE | 97 |
THE TRUCKEE METHOD FIRE AND ICE | 143 |
THE CHINESE REWRITE THE LETTER OF THE LAW | 174 |
A LITANY OF HATE THE 1880s | 228 |
THE DOG TAG LAW | 267 |
NO PLACE FOR A CHINAMAN | 312 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 323 |
NOTES | 329 |
INDEX | 365 |
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