Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 – Digital Instant Dowload.

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520246497
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520246492
• Author: Natalia Molina (Author)

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. 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.

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1. Fit to Be Citizens? Exploring Public Health and Race in Los Angeles (1879-1939)
2. Racial Dynamics in Public Health: Los Angeles from 1879 to 1939
3. The Intersection of Health and Race in Historical LA: Fit to Be Citizens? Analysis