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Fit to be citizens? : public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 / Natalia Molina.
Van Pelt Library RA448.4 .M65 2006
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Molina, Natalia.
- Series:
- American crossroads ; 20.
- American crossroads ; 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--Health and hygiene--California--Los Angeles--History.
- Immigrants.
- Asian Americans--Health and hygiene--California--Los Angeles--History.
- Asian Americans.
- Mexican Americans--Health and hygiene--California--Los Angeles--History.
- Mexican Americans.
- Public health--California--Los Angeles--History.
- Public health.
- History.
- Mexican Americans--Health and hygiene.
- Asian Americans--Health and hygiene.
- Immigrants--Health and hygiene.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations--History.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Public Health--history.
- Los Angeles.
- Asian--history.
- Emigration and Immigration--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- Mexican Americans--history.
- Race Relations--history.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Medical Subjects:
- Public Health--history.
- Los Angeles.
- Asian--history.
- Emigration and Immigration--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- Mexican Americans--history.
- Race Relations--history.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- A widely anticipated first book and an exemplary model of comparative history that shows how racial dynamics were constructed by health officials during Los Angeles's most formative years, how these unique regional dynamics impacted national policies, and how Japanese, Chinese and above all Mexican immigrants responded.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0520246489
- 9780520246485
- 0520246497
- 9780520246492
- OCLC:
- 60650961
- Publisher Number:
- 9780520246492
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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