Raising the Redwood Curtain: Labor Landscapes and Community Violence in a Pacific Littoral

Raising the Redwood Curtain explores how shifting land use practices and exploitative labor patterns spurred by the colonial settlement of the Pacific world influenced the genocide of California’s Native people, anti-Asian campaigns, and the oppression of eastern European immigrant workers. By carefully examining these local developments, it explores how global capitalism fundamentally reordered labor patterns and social relations.

By analyzing the history of three episodes of labor and rac...