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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 the best example of writing in the historical materialist tradition within Asian American Studies" and "he model of historical writing" that discusses both the "history of workers and racism", both interracial "unity but also the limits of that unity."

Notes

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).

Further reading

• 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)

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