Jean Pfaelzer is the author of Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans (New York Times Top 100 Books of the Year), and forthcoming The Stolen People: The History of Slavery and Slave Revolts in California.
Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans: The brutal "ethnic cleansing" of Chinese Americans from Eureka, Arcata, and Humboldt County and California in the 1880s;
How Chinese miners, railroad workers, field laborers, domestic servants, and prostitutes fought back against
purges and deportations --the first general strike in California, the earliest farmworker strikes, and in Eureka, the first lawsuit for
reparations.
New York Times Best Books of the Year, Asian American Book of the Year, Asian American Hero.
