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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Molina, Natalia
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
Series:American crossroads ; 20.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.