Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939

Name: Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939
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ISBN: 9780520246492

ISBN-10: 0520246497

ISBN-13: 9780520246492

Edition: 2006

Authors: Natalia Molina

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Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Through a careful examination of the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, Natalia Molina illustrates the many ways local health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and ultimately define racial groups. She shows how the racialization of Mexican Americans was not simply a matter of legal exclusion or labor exploitation, but rather that scientific discourses and public health practices played a key role in assigning…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 293
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



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


Notes


Bibliography


Index