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

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:American crossroads ; 20.
Main Author: Molina, Natalia
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006], ©2006.
Series:American crossroads ; 20.
Subjects:
Immigrants > Health and hygiene > California > Los Angeles > History.
Asian Americans > Health and hygiene > California > Los Angeles > History.
Mexican Americans > Health and hygiene > California > Los Angeles > History.
Public health > California > Los Angeles > History.
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.
California.
Los Angeles.
Physical Description:xiv, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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.