Link: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/events/calendar.html#5

November 15th, Faculty Cub

In Driven Out: The Forgotten Wars Against Chinese Americans
(Random House), Jean Pfaelzer describes the systematic "ethnic
cleansing" of Chinese Americans on the West Coast. Beginning in 1848, from Tacoma to L.A., Chinese miners, merchants, launderers and field workers, prostitutes and merchants' wives were herded, sometimes at gunpoint, from their homes, sometimes to be thrown into railroad cars to ride the very tracks they had built. Pfaelzer chronicles the valiant Chinese resistance - filing the first lawsuits for reparations, buying weapons, organizing vegetable boycotts, launching the first general strike in California, and sometimes flatly refusing to leave.

All are invited to attend.