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It's Chinatown

99% Invisible

CHAPTER

The Social History of the 1906 San Francisco Fire

Andrea Davies is a historian at the Stanford Humanities Center. She says that in the wake of the disaster, newspapers peddled this feel-goody story that the SF quake and fire were social equalizers. But while white men may have helped white men, no one was out in the Chinese,. And in fact, the racism against them only intensified.

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