Contagious Divides Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown

Name: Contagious Divides Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown
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ISBN: 9780520226296

ISBN-10: 0520226291

ISBN-13: 9780520226296

Edition: 2001

Authors: Nayan Shah

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Contagious Divides charts the dynamic transformation of representations of Chinese immigrants from medical menace in the nineteenth century to model citizen in the mid-twentieth century. Examining the cultural politics of public health and Chinese immigration in San Francisco, this book looks at the history of racial formation in the U.S. by focusing on the development of public health bureaucracies. Nayan Shah notes how the production of Chinese difference and white, heterosexual norms in public health policy affected social lives, politics, and cultural expression. Public health authorities depicted Chinese immigrants as filthy and diseased, as the carriers of such incurable afflictions…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/29/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Nayan Shahis Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego and the author ofContagious Divides(UC Press).



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Public Health, Race, and Citizenship



Public Health and the Mapping of Chinatown



Regulating Bodies and Space



Perversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity



White Women, Hygiene, and the Struggle for Respectable Domesticity



Plague and Managing the Commercial City



White Labor and the American Standard of Living



Making Medical Borders at Angel Island



Healthy Spaces, Healthy Conduct



Reforming Chinatown


Conclusion: Norms as a Way of Life


Notes


Bibliography


Index