Foster, L. Robert. Working On The Railroad The Chinese Way. Wildwest 23.1 (2010): 38-45.

Academic Search Premier. Web. 16, Oct. 2014.

In the article working on the Railroad the Chinese Way is a bountiful amount of
information regarding as to who really built the transcontinental railroad. Some people
confused as to who helped built this railroad could find that Chinese were actually the
ones immigrating to this country in order to work for low wages and building the
railroad. History has a tendency to show the better side of how things happened in history
but this article reveals the true side as to what happened during the building of the
railroads. In the article it mentions that the Central pacific had started off by hiring 50
workers which eventually led to 90% of the railroad labor being Chinese. The number of
casualties lost was not recorded but it is estimated that around 12,000 Chinese died. The
number of deceased should have been recorded the unprofessionalism of the management
during the building of the railroad should have taken more into consideration the men that
worked for their company.
the opportunity to bring their family over here.
Limerick, Patricia Nelson. Witnesses To Persecution. New York Times July. 2007: n. pag.
Web. 16 Oct. 2014.
In this New York Times book review it goes over the injustices that occurred during
1850-1906. The book is called Driven Out in which the accounts of many injustices such
as the persecution of Chinese that were driven out of this country, and how now they try
to gain some form of justice through reparations. The need for some form of reparations
can be referenced with the American Indians who also received some form of money for
the suffering of a whole ethnicity. The countless acts of racism that took place in that

time in history such as the Geary Act of 1892, in which Chinese immigrants carry an
identity card proving they were in the country legally or else face deportation. The
unnecessary use of force by the government to seclude and section out a race as a whole
is terrible. Reading the book driven out will definitely provide some insight on how the
Chinese culture felt and thrived during that period in time.
Nast, Thomas. Pacific Chivalry. Cartoon. Thomasnastcartoons.com. Thomasnast, 25 Feb.
2014. Web. 16 Oct. 2014.
The cartoon Pacific Chivalry displays a Chinese male being pulled by his queue a
unique hairstyle and dragged towards a white Irish male. The first Chinese immigration
cartoon Thomas Nast created it displays the feelings he had towards the subject of the
Chinese being here in America. The racist connotations behind it make it worse knowing
that many of American people during this time period were going to see it. The hair style
worn by the Chinese men were thought to be
very feminine by the white males. It created
feelings of homophobia in a male dominated
industry. The whip is raised in the cartoon ready
to hit the Chinese man as he is getting his hair
pulled. The background of the cartoon there is a
railroad track and a building that says Courts of Justice Closed to Chinese. Extra Taxes
to Yellow Jack. Basically implying that justice for the Chinese is no longer available
mocking the idea that it could possibly exist.
Patel, Samir. Americas Chinatowns. Archaeology 67.3 (2014): 38-43. Academic Search
Premier. Web. 16 Oct. 2014.

In the article Patel states that there were only 50 native Chinese people in the U.S. prior
to the Gold Rush in the 1840s. The first Chinatowns were established from California to
Utah allowing more than 100,000 Chinese per town to thrive. History never displays such
significance towards something as complex as the structure of how a certain race came to
be so productive and discriminated upon at the same time. In the article archeologist find
many remains of Chinese rail road workers in which they have suffered fractures, blunt
force trauma which leads to a conclusion that the workers were beaten constantly. The
men werent the only ones to suffer Chinese women werent allowed to enter the U.S.
due to a fear that they may be prostitutes. This obviously not true led to a higher male to
female ratio. Sexism and racism can both be found during the building of the railroad and
creation of Americas Chinatowns.
Quan, Rick. Chinese Railroad Workers Memorial. YouTube. YouTube, 8 May. 2014. Web. 16
Oct. 2014.
The short video clip goes over what the Chinese railroad workers went through during
the building of the railroad. The Chinese werent given credit for their work. Their
employers acknowledged their work but the public refused to. No one wanted the
Chinese in the U.S. they were considered undesirables. In the clip the Chinese only
have a plaque. They want to develop a visual in order to have people question what
happened during the building of the railroad. To this day they still havent built a
monument which is outrageous considering that is going to be 150 years in 2015. In 2015
they plan on getting some of the building of this monument started. This will help
provide many relatives of the working men some form of gratitude for such a hidden

unknown history that deserves more than just a plaque in honor of the lives lost and hard
work achieved.