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Contagious Divides : Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown /
Contagious Divides charts the dynamic transformation of representations of Chinese immigrants from medical menace in the nineteenth century to model citizen in the mid-twentieth century. Examining the cultural politics of public health and Chinese immigration in San Francisco, this book looks at the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | American Crossroads ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Public Health, Race, and Citizenship
- 1. Public Health and the Mapping of Chinatown
- 2. Regulating Bodies and Space
- 3. Perversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity
- 4. White Women, Hygiene, and the Struggle for Respectable Domesticity
- 5. Plague and Managing the Commercial City
- 6. White Labor and the American Standard of Living
- 7. Making Medical Borders at Angel Island
- 8. Healthy Spaces, Healthy Conduct
- 9. Reforming Chinatown
- Conclusion: Norms as a Way of Life
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index