I was always aware that the Chinese were appallingly mistreated in America, particularly in nineteenth and early twentieth-century California. But nothing prepared me for Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans by Jean Pfaelzer.
What Pfaelzer catalogs is nothing short of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and pogroms, all under the banner of an ugly and uncompromising white supremacy.
If you know a person who still thinks America gives all a fair shot regardless of ethnicity, religion, or class, disabuse them by giving them this book.
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