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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 :
University of California Press,
[2001]
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| Colección: | American crossroads ;
7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Public health, race, and citizenship
- Public health and the mapping of Chinatown
- Regulating bodies and space
- Perversity, contamination, and the dangers of queer domesticity
- White women, hygiene, and the struggle for respectable domesticity
- Plague and managing the commercial city
- White labor and the American standard of living
- Making medical borders at Angel Island
- Healthy spaces, healthy conduct
- Reforming Chinatown
- Conclusion : Norms as a way of life.