Poet Paisley Rekdal Summons the Lost Voices of Chinese Railroad Workers
Poetry on the landscape of race, past and present
The transcontinental railroad—one of the great engineering feats of US history—was laid thanks to the labor of Chinese immigrants: between 1865 and 1869, some 12,000 Chinese workers constructed the western line. Yet very little evidence remains in the words of the workers themselves. “This is not to say there are ...
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