LEADER 05344nam 22010095 450 001 9910827297703321 005 20240410160630.0 010 $a1-282-77201-5 010 $a9786612772016 010 $a0-520-93920-4 010 $a1-4337-0842-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520939202 035 $a(CKB)1000000000354362 035 $a(EBL)301112 035 $a(OCoLC)614493231 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000155736 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11159494 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000155736 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10112603 035 $a(PQKB)11035745 035 $a(DE-B1597)519118 035 $a(OCoLC)166267037 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520939202 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC301112 035 $a(NjHacI)991000000000354362 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000354362 100 $a20200424h20062006 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aFit to Be Citizens? $ePublic Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerkeley, CA :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2006] 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (295 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican Crossroads 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-24649-7 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList Of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Interlopers In The Land Of Sunshine: Chinese Disease Carriers, Launderers, And Vegetable Peddlers --$t2. Caught Between Discourses Of Disease, Health, And Nation: Public Health Attitudes Toward Japanese And Mexican Laborers In Progressive-Era Los Angeles --$t3. Institutionalizing Public Health In Ethnic Los Angeles In The 1920's --$t4. "We Can No Longer Ignore The Problem Of The Mexican": Depression-Era Public Health Policies In Los Angeles --$t5. The Fight For "Health, Morality, And Decent Living Standards": Mexican Americans And The Struggle For Public Housing In 1930's Los Angeles --$tEpilogue: Genealogies Of Racial Discourses And Practices --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aMeticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Through a careful examination of the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, Natalia Molina illustrates the many ways local health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and ultimately define racial groups. She shows how the racialization of Mexican Americans was not simply a matter of legal exclusion or labor exploitation, but rather that scientific discourses and public health practices played a key role in assigning negative racial characteristics to the group. The book skillfully moves beyond the binary oppositions that usually structure works in ethnic studies by deploying comparative and relational approaches that reveal the racialization of Mexican Americans as intimately associated with the relative historical and social positions of Asian Americans, African Americans, and whites. Its rich archival grounding provides a valuable history of public health in Los Angeles, living conditions among Mexican immigrants, and the ways in which regional racial categories influence national laws and practices. Molina's compelling study advances our understanding of the complexity of racial politics, attesting that racism is not static and that different groups can occupy different places in the racial order at different times. 410 0$aAmerican Crossroads 606 $aImmigrants$xHealth and hygiene$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory 606 $aAsian Americans$xHealth and hygiene$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory 606 $aMexican Americans$xHealth and hygiene$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory 606 $aPublic health$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory 610 $aafrican americans. 610 $aamerica. 610 $aamerican citizens. 610 $aasian americans. 610 $achinese immigrants. 610 $acultural history. 610 $aearly 20th century. 610 $aethnic studies. 610 $aethnographers. 610 $aethnography. 610 $ahealth officials. 610 $ajapanese immigrants. 610 $alabor exploitation. 610 $alegal exclusion. 610 $aliving conditions. 610 $alos angeles. 610 $amexican americans. 610 $amexican immigrants. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $apublic health. 610 $arace and law. 610 $arace issues. 610 $aracial groups. 610 $aracial politics. 610 $aracialization. 610 $aracism. 610 $ascientific developments. 610 $aunited states. 615 0$aImmigrants$xHealth and hygiene$xHistory. 615 0$aAsian Americans$xHealth and hygiene$xHistory. 615 0$aMexican Americans$xHealth and hygiene$xHistory. 615 0$aPublic health$xHistory. 676 $a362.1/0979494 700 $aMolina$b Natalia$01637355 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827297703321 996 $aFit to Be Citizens$93994168 997 $aUNINA