HOME > Detail View

Detail View

Contagious divides : epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown

Contagious divides : epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown (Loan 6 times)

Material type
단행본
Personal Author
Shah, Nayan, 1966-.
Title Statement
Contagious divides : epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown / Nayan Shah.
Publication, Distribution, etc
Berkeley :   University of California Press,   c2001.  
Physical Medium
xiv, 384 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Statement
American crossroads ;7
ISBN
0520226283 (alk. paper) 0520226291 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780520226296
Bibliography, Etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
Chinese Americans --Health and hygiene --California --San Francisco --History. Public health --California --San Francisco --History. Epidemics --California --San Francisco --History. Immigrants --Health and hygiene --California --San Francisco --History. Chinese Americans --Health and hygiene --Social aspects --California --San Francisco --History. Community health services --California --San Francisco --History.
Subject Added Entry-Geographic Name
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) --Social conditions --21st century.
000 00000cam u2200205 a 4500
001 000046029643
005 20200528161931
008 200528s2001 caua b s001 0 eng
010 ▼a 2001027615
020 ▼a 0520226283 (alk. paper)
020 ▼a 0520226291 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 ▼a 9780520226296
035 ▼a (KERIS)REF000009537675
040 ▼a DLC ▼c DLC ▼d DLC ▼d 211009
043 ▼a n-us-ca
050 0 0 ▼a RA448.5.C45 ▼b S53 2001
082 0 4 ▼a 614.4/9794/61089951073 ▼2 23
084 ▼a 614.4979461 ▼2 DDCK
090 ▼a 614.4979461 ▼b S525c
100 1 ▼a Shah, Nayan, ▼d 1966-.
245 1 0 ▼a Contagious divides : ▼b epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown / ▼c Nayan Shah.
260 ▼a Berkeley : ▼b University of California Press, ▼c c2001.
300 ▼a xiv, 384 p. : ▼b ill. ; ▼c 23 cm.
490 1 ▼a American crossroads ; ▼v 7
504 ▼a Includes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 ▼a Chinese Americans ▼x Health and hygiene ▼z California ▼z San Francisco ▼x History.
650 0 ▼a Public health ▼z California ▼z San Francisco ▼x History.
650 0 ▼a Epidemics ▼z California ▼z San Francisco ▼x History.
650 0 ▼a Immigrants ▼x Health and hygiene ▼z California ▼z San Francisco ▼x History.
650 0 ▼a Chinese Americans ▼x Health and hygiene ▼x Social aspects ▼z California ▼z San Francisco ▼x History.
650 0 ▼a Community health services ▼z California ▼z San Francisco ▼x History.
651 0 ▼a Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) ▼x Social conditions ▼y 21st century.
830 0 ▼a American crossroads ; ▼v 7.
945 ▼a KLPA

Holdings Information

No. Location Call Number Accession No. Availability Due Date Make a Reservation Service
No. 1 Location Main Library/Western Books/ Call Number 614.4979461 S525c Accession No. 111828933 (6회 대출) Availability Available Due Date Make a Reservation Service B M

Contents information

Book Introduction

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.



Information Provided By: : Aladin

Table of Contents

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

New Arrivals Books in Related Fields