Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 279 p)
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ill., maps
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780520246492
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0520246497
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0520246489
Series Statement:
American crossroads 20
Content:
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 r
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-272) and index
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Interlopers in the Land of Sunshine: Chinese Disease Carriers, Launderers, and Vegetable Peddlers; 2. Caught between Discourses of Disease, Health, and Nation: Public Health Attitudes toward Japanese and Mexican Laborers in Progressive-Era Los Angeles; 3. Institutionalizing Public Health in Ethnic Los Angeles in the 1920s; 4. "We Can No Longer Ignore the Problem of the Mexican": Depression-Era Public Health Policies in Los Angeles
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5. The Fight for "Health, Morality, and Decent Living Standards": Mexican Americans and the Struggle for Public Housing in 1930s Los AngelesEpilogue: Genealogies of Racial Discourses and Practices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520246492
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fit to Be Citizens? : Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
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