9780520246492-0520246497-Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 (American Crossroads) (Volume 20)

Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 (American Crossroads) (Volume 20)

ISBN-13: 9780520246492
ISBN-10: 0520246497
Edition: First Edition
Author: Natalia Molina
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 293 pages
FREE US shipping
Rent
35 days
from $30.73 USD
FREE shipping on RENTAL RETURNS
Buy

From $10.47

Rent

From $30.73

Book details

ISBN-13: 9780520246492
ISBN-10: 0520246497
Edition: First Edition
Author: Natalia Molina
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 293 pages

Summary

Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 (American Crossroads) (Volume 20) (ISBN-13: 9780520246492 and ISBN-10: 0520246497), written by authors Natalia Molina, was published by University of California Press in 2006. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other State & Local (United States History, Public Health, Administration & Medicine Economics, Anthropology, Behavioral Sciences, Urban, Sociology, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 (American Crossroads) (Volume 20) (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used State & Local books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.83.

Description

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. 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.

Rate this book Rate this book

We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book