SDCHM Lecture: "Driven Out: The Long War against Chinese Americans"

Professor of English, Asian Studies, and Women & Gender Studies (University of Delaware), Jean Pfaelzer, will join the San Diego Chinese Historical Musuem (SDCHM) for their free October 2024 edition of The Chinese American Experience & Beyond (TCAE&B) lecture.

Driven Out is the title of Dr. Jean Pfaelzer’s book published by the University of California Press, which 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. The book explores how 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.

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