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

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, [2006], ©2006.

xiv, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-272) and index.

Interlopers in the land of sunshine : Chinese disease carriers, launderers, and vegetable peddlers -- Caught between discourses of disease, health, and nation : public health attitudes toward Japanese and Mexican laborers in progressive-era Los Angeles -- Institutionalizing public health in ethnic Los Angeles in the 1920s -- "We can no longer ignore the problem of the Mexican" : depression-era public health policies in Los Angeles -- 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.