"Chinese Massacre" dramatizes little-known history

[JBeukema]

In The Chinese Massacre (Annotated),playwright Tom Jacobson takes a Howard Zinn-like "people's history" look at Los Angeles, revealing a little-known, yet significant, episode. In 1871, long before the 20th century's Zoot Suit, Watts and L.A. riots, there was a pogrom against L. A.'s then-200 inhabitants of Chinese ancestry. There are few more important, serious subjects than ethnic cleansing and genocide. Jacobson and Circle X Theatre Co. are to be commended for rescuing this butchery and burning 140 years ago from our collective amnesia. The killing of 18 Chinese men - almost 10 percent of Chinatown's population - surpassed the number of victims of the Manson tribe, yet is as forgotten as Squeaky and Charlie remain remembered.

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[RetiredGySgt]

In The Chinese Massacre (Annotated),playwright Tom Jacobson takes a Howard Zinn-like "people's history" look at Los Angeles, revealing a little-known, yet significant, episode. In 1871, long before the 20th century's Zoot Suit, Watts and L.A. riots, there was a pogrom against L. A.'s then-200 inhabitants of Chinese ancestry. There are few more important, serious subjects than ethnic cleansing and genocide. Jacobson and Circle X Theatre Co. are to be commended for rescuing this butchery and burning 140 years ago from our collective amnesia. The killing of 18 Chinese men - almost 10 percent of Chinatown's population - surpassed the number of victims of the Manson tribe, yet is as forgotten as Squeaky and Charlie remain remembered.

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Who the hell cares? It is historical fact that until recent history Racism was alive and well and very violent all over the world. It is still violent but not as well as it once was.

 

[sparky]

Who the hell cares?

oh i duuno, maybe folks that don't wish to repeat it....

 

[konradv]

In The Chinese Massacre (Annotated),playwright Tom Jacobson takes a Howard Zinn-like "people's history" look at Los Angeles, revealing a little-known, yet significant, episode. In 1871, long before the 20th century's Zoot Suit, Watts and L.A. riots, there was a pogrom against L. A.'s then-200 inhabitants of Chinese ancestry. There are few more important, serious subjects than ethnic cleansing and genocide. Jacobson and Circle X Theatre Co. are to be commended for rescuing this butchery and burning 140 years ago from our collective amnesia. The killing of 18 Chinese men - almost 10 percent of Chinatown's population - surpassed the number of victims of the Manson tribe, yet is as forgotten as Squeaky and Charlie remain remembered.

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Who the hell cares? It is historical fact that until recent history Racism was alive and well and very violent all over the world. It is still violent but not as well as it once was.

Who cares?!?! This is the "History" forum! That should be reason enough. What are you doing here, then?