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The Indispensable Enemy

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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]

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  1. ^ S Kurashige, "Beyond Random Acts of Hatred: Analyzing Urban Patterns of Anti-Asian Violence", Amerasia Journal (2000).
  2. ^ David Roediger, "History Making and Politics", International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, v.2, n.3, pp.371-372 (emphasis in the original).

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