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

By: Contributor(s): Series: American crossroads ; 20.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.Description: xiv, 279 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.1/0979494 22
LOC classification:
  • RA448.4 .M65 2006eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-272) and index.

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.

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