TY - JOUR
AU - Raat, W. Dirk
AB - Book Reviews 631 Pfeifer offers us a groundbreaking contribu- the exception to the typical experience found tion to the literature on American violence and in San Francisco and other cities in the Pacific lynching. He constructs an insightful depic- Northwest. tion of lynching based on regional variations as The treatment of the subjects is fairly neu- well as the enduring national discussion about tral, aimed at understanding the factors that the suitability of “rough” versus formal justice enabled the Chinese to land and build their in a democratic society. Pfeifer has written a communities in Portland. Moreover, the book book rich in suggestion and insight that suc- is written clearly and well organized. Wong ceeds in every way. used a copious amount of primary sources from the National Archives, including immi- Walter T. Howard gration files, manuscript censuses, letters, and Bloomsburg University newspaper accounts, to chronicle Portland’s Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania Chinatowns from the 1850s to the 1940s. The book is not without errors or gaps. Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of For example, Wong stated a few times that Portland, Oregon. By Marie Rose Wong. (Se- exclusion laws severely restricted and eventu- attle: University of Washington Press, 2004. xx, 
TI - Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/3659344
DA - 2005-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/catarino-garza-s-revolution-on-the-texas-mexico-border-vKYJ3JuIU5
SP - 631
EP - 632
VL - 92
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -