| The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California Contributor(s): Saxton, Alexander (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520029054 ISBN-13: 9780520029057 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $33.61 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1975 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
| Dewey: 301.451 |
| LCCN: 95024926 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.49" W x 8.24" (0.74 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Jacksonian background which proves crucial to an understanding of what occurred in California. The Indispensable Enemy looks beyond the turn of the 19th century to trace results of the sequence of events in the West for the labor movement as a whole, influencing events that led to the crystallization of an American concept of national identity. |