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Author Pfaelzer, Jean.

Title Driven out : the forgotten war against Chinese Americans / Jean Pfaelzer.

Imprint New York : Random House, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  979.4004951 P47d 2007    ---  Available
Description xxix, 400 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-387) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Chinese Americans -- California -- History -- 19th century.
Chinese Americans -- Crimes against -- California -- History -- 19th century.
Chinese Americans -- Relocation -- California -- History -- 19th century.
Racism -- California -- History -- 19th century.
Violence -- California -- History -- 19th century.
Forced migration -- California -- History -- 19th century.
California -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Ethnic neighborhoods -- California -- History -- 19th century.
California -- History, Local.
ISBN 1400061342 (acid-free paper)
9781400061341 (acid-free paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000040934458
NZ1 11034749

 
    
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