Fit to be citizens? public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 / [electronic resource] :
Natalia Molina.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
- xiv, 279 p. : ill., maps.
- American crossroads ; 20 .
- American crossroads ; 20. .
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Immigrants--Health and hygiene--History.--California--Los Angeles Asian Americans--Health and hygiene--History.--California--Los Angeles Mexican Americans--Health and hygiene--History.--California--Los Angeles Public health--History.--California--Los Angeles