The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California (ISBN 978-0520029057) is a 1975 labor and California history book by Alexander Saxton which became one of the founding texts of Asian American studies. The book has been described as "represent[ing] the best example of writing in the historical materialist tradition within Asian American Studies"[1] and "[t]he model of historical writing" that discusses both the "history of workers and racism", both interracial "unity but also the limits of that unity."[2]
Author | Alexander Saxton |
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Genre | History |
Publication date | 1975 |
ISBN | 978-0520029057 |
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editFurther reading
edit- Alexander Saxton, "The Indispensable Enemy and Ideological Construction: Reminiscences of an Octogenarian Radical", Amerasia Journal, v.26, n.1, pp. 86–101 (2000).
- R. W. Rydell, "Grand Crossings: The Life and Work of Alexander Saxton", Pacific Historical Review (2004)