Fit to Be Citizens?

Author: Natalia Molina
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520246497
Category: Medical

Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 (American Crossroads)

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. Download Fit to Be Citizens? medical books for free.
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 Get Fit to Be Citizens? our bestseller medical books.

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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 The

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