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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 history of racial formation in the U.S. by focusing on the development of public health bureaucracies. Nayan Shah notes how the production of Chinese difference and white, heterosexual norms in public health policy affected social lives, politics, and cultural expression. Public health authorities depicted Chinese immigrants as filthy and diseased, as the carriers of such incurable afflictions as smallpox, syphilis, and bubonic plague. This resulted in the vociferous enforcement of sanitary regulations on the Chinese community. But the authorities did more than demon-ize the Chinese; they also marshaled civic resources that promoted sewer construction, vaccination programs, and public health management. Shah shows how Chinese Americans responded to health regulations and allegations with persuasive political speeches, lawsuits, boycotts, violent protests, and poems. Chinese American activists drew upon public health strategies in their advocacy for health services and public housing. Adroitly employing discourses of race and health, these activists argued that Chinese Americans were worthy and deserving of sharing in the resources of American society.

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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520226291
ISBN-13
9780520226296
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1929407

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Author
Nayan Shah
Publication Name
Contagious Divides : Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Series
American Crossroads Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz

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Series Volume Number
7
Lc Classification Number
2001027615
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This striking book asks provocative questions and seamlessly weaves together narratives central to the history of race, Asian Americans, urban politics, public health, and citizenship. . . . Using an array of sources and theoretical frameworks, Contagious Divides is an extremely important, original, and engaging book. It offers us a striking new vantage point from which to view racial formation, the role of the state, and public health in marking exclusion and inclusion in the United States.
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
2001
Topic
Public Health, Discrimination & Race Relations, Emigration & Immigration, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Health Policy, Epidemiology
Lccn
2001-027615
Dewey Decimal
614.4/9794
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Medical, Social Science

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