Contagious Divides
, by Shah, NayanNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780520226296 | 0520226291
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/1/2001
A sophisticated history of efforts to control epidemics in San Francisco's Chinatown, revealing how the interventions of public health officials helped to define the Asian American community as diseased and abnormal. The author charts how Asian Americans then struggled against this image, working to become model citizens in the eyes of the modern state.