Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939

Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939

Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Through a careful examin…

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