Reviewed by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.4

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*Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans.* By Jean Pfaelzer. New York: Random House, 2007. xxix + 400 pp. Photos, notes, and index. $27.95 (cloth).
Driven Out tackles the "tough stuff" in Chinese American history, the anti-Chinese movement in the American West during the nineteenth century. Immediately, author Jean Pfaelzer raises the stakes, calling these campaigns to drive out Chinese immigrants "ethnic cleansings" and "pogroms." Most compelling is her treatment of the hundreds of violent expulsions in California and the Pacific Northwest, which were systematic and not merely scattered outbursts of malcontents on the fringes of society. Everyone is implicated—legislators who endorsed racism, newspaper editors who encouraged violence, employers who bowed to pressure to fire Chinese, and judges who awarded the guilty light sentences.	1
Pfaelzer introduces readers to many previously unknown events and people from the anti-Chinese movement, such as the ominously named "601" (six feet under, zero trial, one bullet) in Truckee, California. She also describes Chinese and white allies' efforts to secure justice, such as Wing Hing v. City of Eureka, in which a Chinese plaintiff sued the city on behalf of his countrymen after a brutal purge. A memorable figure is the white American attorney Frederick Bee, who filed suit on behalf of Chinese driven out of Placer and beseeched state and federal officials to protect victims during a riot in Truckee.	. . .

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