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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Pfaelzer, Jean. Driven out. New York : Random House, c2007 (OCoLC)608444246 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean Pfaelzer |
| ISBN: | 1400061342 9781400061341 |
| OCLC Number: | 71779102 |
| Description: | xxix, 400 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | List of illustrations -- Introduction : The Chinese called it Pai Hua, or The driven out -- 1. Gold! : "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must" -- 2. Dead branches -- 3. The woman's tale : "In case I should be kidnapped" -- 4. The Eureka method : "We have no Chinese" -- 5. The Truckee method : fire and ice -- 6. The Chinese rewrite the letter of the law -- 7. A litany of hate : the 1880s -- 8. The dog tag law -- Conclusion : "No place for a Chinaman" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Jean Pfaelzer. |
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Abstract:
Chronicles the systematic attempts to purge Chinese enclaves across the West from the Gold Rush era to the turn of the twentieth century, documenting the efforts of the Chinese Americans to achieve reparations and attain rights.
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