Alexander Saxton,William Deverell
Winner, Silver Medal,Â California Book Awardsâ€”Commonwealth Club of California, With a foreword by William Deverell,The Indispensable Enemy,Â examines the anti-Chinese confrontationÂ 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, AlexanderÂ 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 traceÂ results of the sequence of events in the West for the labor movement as a whole,Â influencingÂ events that led to the crystallization of an American concept of national identity.
History,Race,Labor,Nonfiction
The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California