Author: Natalia Molina
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520246497
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520246497
Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 (American Crossroads)
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.
[ Ships Daily ] Condition: Fair[ Underlining/Highlighting: SOME ] [ Writing: SOME ] [ Water Damage: SLIGHT, doesn't affect use ] Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 (American Crossroads) By Natalia Molina ISBN: 0520246497 Edition:first Publisher: University of California Press Pub Date: 3/13/2006 Binding: Paperback Pages: 293
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 negative racial characteristics to the group. The
Fit To Be Citizens? Public Health And Race In Los Angeles, 1879-1939
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both Science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the1. Interlopers in the Land of Sunshine : Chinese Disease Carriers, Launderers, and Vegetable Peddlers
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""Fit to Be Citizens is tightly organized, crisply and clearly argued, and beautifully written throughout. Molina paints a vivid portrait of an understudied dimension of southern California social history.""???David
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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
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