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Author Molina, Natalia.

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

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series American crossroads ; 20
American crossroads ; 20.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index.
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.
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Subject Immigrants -- Health and hygiene -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Immigrants -- Health and hygiene.
California -- Los Angeles.
History.
Immigrants.
Asian Americans -- Health and hygiene -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Asian Americans -- Health and hygiene.
Asian Americans.
Mexican Americans -- Health and hygiene -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Mexican Americans -- Health and hygiene.
Public health -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Public health.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations -- History.
Public Health -- history.
Asian -- history.
Emigration and Immigration -- history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
Mexican Americans -- history.
Race Relations -- history.
Los Angeles.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Molina, Natalia. Fit to be citizens?. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006 0520246489 9780520246485 (DLC) 2005016385 (OCoLC)60650961
ISBN 9780520939202 (electronic book)
0520939204 (electronic book)
9780520246485 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520246489 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9781429481830 (electronic book)
1429481838 (electronic book)
0520246497 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780520246492