Fit to be citizens?: public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939

Abstract

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Interlopers in the Land of Sunshine: Chinese Disease Carriers, Launderers, and Vegetable Peddlers 2. Caught between Discourses of Disease, and Nation: Public Health Attitudes toward Japanese and Mexican Laborers in Progressive-Era Los Angeles 3. Institutionalizing Public Health in Ethnic Los Angeles in the 1920s 4. We Can No Longer Ignore the Problem of the Mexican: Depression-Era Public Health Policies in Los Angeles 5. 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 Notes Bibliography Index