The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California

by Alexander Saxton

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Winner, Silver Medal, California Book Awards--Commonwealth Club of California

With a foreword by William Deverell

The Indispensable Enemy examines the anti-Chinese confrontation on the Pacific Coast as it was experienced and rationalized by the white majority. Focusing on the Democratic party and the labor movement of California through the forty-year period after the Civil War, Alexander Saxton explores aspects of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520029054
• ISBN13: 9780520029057
• Release Date: June 1975
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"