Title Fit to be citizens? : public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 / Natalia Molina

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages) : illustrations, maps Series American crossroads ; 20 American crossroads ; 20 Contents Interlopers in the land of sunshine : Chinese disease carriers, launderers, and vegetable peddlers -- Caught between discourses of disease, health, and nation : public health attitudes toward Japanese and Mexican laborers in progressive-era Los Angeles -- Institutionalizing public health in ethnic Los Angeles in the 1920s -- "We can no longer ignore the problem of the Mexican" : depression-era public health policies in Los Angeles -- The fight for "health, morality, and decent living standards" : Mexican Americans and the struggle for public housing in 1930s Los Angeles -- Epilogue : genealogies of racial discourses and practices Summary Shows how science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Examining the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, this book illustrates the ways health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and define racial groups Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2021. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Immigrants -- Health and hygiene -- California -- Los Angeles -- History Asian Americans -- Health and hygiene -- California -- Los Angeles -- History Mexican Americans -- Health and hygiene -- California -- Los Angeles -- History Public health -- California -- Los Angeles -- History Public Health -- history Asian -- history Emigration and Immigration -- history History, 19th Century History, 20th Century Mexican Americans -- history Race Relations -- history HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues. MEDICAL -- Public Health. MEDICAL -- Health Policy. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General. MEDICAL -- Diseases. MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) Asian Americans -- Health and hygiene Immigrants -- Health and hygiene Mexican Americans -- Health and hygiene Public health Race relations Asiaten Chicanos Medizinische Versorgung Sociale gezondheidszorg. Immigranten. Rassenverhoudingen. Immigrants -- Health and hygiene -- California -- Los Angeles. Asian Americans -- California -- Los Angeles. Mexican Americans -- Health and hygiene -- California -- Los Angeles -- History. Public health -- California -- Los Angeles. SUBJECT Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations -- History Los Angeles Subject California -- Los Angeles Los Angeles, Calif. Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations. Asiaten. Chicanos. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520939202 0520939204 9780520246485 0520246489 9781429481830 1429481838 1282772015 9781282772014 0520246497 9780520246492

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