| Review | Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive era, 7.4

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Driven Out by Driving It Home: A History of Anti-Chinese Violence in the American West

PFAELZER, JEAN. Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans. New York: Random House, 2007. xxix + 400 pp. Introduction, illustrations, notes, index. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4000-6134-1.
It is well known to readers of this journal that the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era were periods of great contradictions: the struggle for workers' and women's rights and social and educational reforms, right alongside the lynching of African Americans, imperialism, and the rise of anti-immigrant sentiments. Perhaps the most significant anti-immigrant legislation passed during this period was the Chinese Exclusion Act, which in 1882 prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers for a period of ten years, marking the first time that American immigration law excluded a group of people based on their social class and country of origin. This act was twice renewed before being made indefinite in 1904 and was repealed in 1943 only because the United States and China were allies during the Second World War.	1
Jean Pfaelzer has written the most exhaustive study available today of anti-Chinese violence in the American West, from Los Angeles to Tacoma between 1849 and 1895. She uses a wealth of primary sources, including government documents and journalistic accounts of the "driving out" of the Chinese populations from large cities and small towns, as well as a large range of secondary sources. Not only does a detailed picture of the purges of Chinese immigrants from western locales emerge, but so too do the names and faces of those victims of violence who are usually referred to as simply "Chinamen."	. . .

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