San Antonio College Library

The historic Uptown neighborhood of Chicago: Arthur Przybyszewski owns a run-down donut shop that has been in his family for six decades; Franco Wicks, a young black man and Arthur's only employee, wants to modernize the shop full circle. This provocative comedy, set in the heart of one of Chicago's most diverse communities, explores the challenges of embracing the past and the redemptive power of friendship.

The brutal and systematic "ethnic cleansing" of Chinese-Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the 19th century is a shocking and virtually unexplored chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten episode in our nation's past. Drawing on years of groundbreaking research, Jean Pfaelzer reveals how, beginning in 1849, lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians purged dozens of communities of thousands...