Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion

Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion

Author: Emily K. Abel

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2007-10-08

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 0813543827

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Though notorious for its polluted air today, the city of Los Angeles once touted itself as a health resort. After the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in 1876, publicists launched a campaign to portray the city as the promised land, circulating countless stories of miraculous cures for the sick and debilitated. As more and more migrants poured in, however, a gap emerged between the city’s glittering image and its dark reality. Emily K. Abel shows how the association of the disease with “tramps” during the 1880s and 1890s and Dust Bowl refugees during the 1930s provoked exclusionary measures against both groups. In addition, public health officials sought not only to restrict the entry of Mexicans (the majority of immigrants) during the 1920s but also to expel them during the 1930s. Abel’s revealing account provides a critical lens through which to view both the contemporary debate about immigration and the U.S. response to the emergent global tuberculosis epidemic.


The Frontier of Leisure

The Frontier of Leisure

Author: Lawrence Culver

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-06-07

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0199891923

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Tracing the history of Southern California from the late 19th century through the late 20th century, this book reveals how this region did much more than just create lavish resorts like Santa Catalina Island and Palm Springs - it literally remade American attitudes towards leisure.


Annual Reports

Annual Reports

Author: Carnegie Institute

Publisher:

Published: 1918

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13:

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Includes report of the director of fine arts, of the director of the Museum, and of the director of the Technical schools.