Driven Out The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans Jean Pfaelzer by Jean Pfaelzer 9780520256941, 0520256948 instant download after payment.

But the Chinese fought back―with arms, strikes, & lawsuits & by flatly refusing to leave. When red posters appeared on barns & 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 & starved out. But even facing brutal pogroms, they stood up for their civil rights. This is a story that defines us as a nation & marks our humanity.

JEAN PFAELZER is a professor of English, East Asian studies, & women’s studies at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Rebecca Harding Davis &the Origins of Social Realism & The Utopian Novel in America as well as two other books & more than thirty articles in the areas of 19th-century American history, American studies, American literature, feminist theory, utopian fiction, & cultural theory. She was the executive director of the National Labor Law Center of the National Lawyers Guild, & worked as a senior legislative analyst to Congressman Frank McCloskey on immigration, labor, & women’s legislation. She was appointed to the Washington, D.C., Commission for Women & was a consultant for the Coal Employment Project, the organization of women coal miners. A longtime Californian, she now lives near Washington, D.C., with her family.