Mexican American History
The book by Natalia shows how equally discipline and the communal wellbeing formed the connotation of contest in the initial 20th centuries. Through an assessment of the life skills of the these Mexicans, Japanese and Chinese settlers, Natalia proofs the many ways that the domestic health officers used to construct the considerations about the public health to degrade, reduce and punish the cultural crowds. She displays how the racial aspect of the Mexican Americans was not only an issue of lawful prohibiting or work misuse, but the technical dissertations and the public health performs that played a major part in outlining negative racial features to the Mexican Americans. The book move further to the two oppositions that makes the works of racial studies that shows the effects of race on the Mexican Americans as connected with the ancient and communal situations of the Asian Americans, African Americans and the whites (Natalia 16).
The book by Natalia gives an antiquity of the public health in Los Angeles, the status of existing of the Mexican settlers and the conducts in which the national groups affected the state rules and applies. Her studies improves our indulgent of the complex ethnic government showing that bias is not inert and that diverse groups can stay in dissimilar residences despite their races at different times. From the onset of the book, she shows the flow of racial understanding and the ways that racial categories developed to form a regional racial wordlist. This wordlist made the settlers as the carriers of the racial disease and a threat to the legendary in which Los Angeles gave potential white settlers. Natalia proofs how the disease grew between the racial groups based on the historical approaches from 1879 to 1939. For instance, when the Mexicans were ignored by the County health attendants, with the Chinese settlers’ demeanor the effect of discernment public health rules, the Mexican communities came under the purview of the public health officials in the 1920’s (Natalia 20).
While Natalia furthers her assessment on the Mexicans as they were the largest immigrant group in Los Angeles, her humility is reasonable. She explains how at the turn of the century the city of Los Angeles and the community health officers improved the city as a beacon of modernity and health living as they wanted to make the Midwestern and the Eastern Euro Americans inhabit the city to remove the unwanted areas such as China. In her book, Natalia shows the long founded culture among the public health officials who had the weapon of technical objectivity which increase the racism discourse that led to the health problems that faced Mexican, Japanese and the Chines communities to their obliged living and cultural dependencies (Natalia, 27).
The book by Zaragosa, explains that the Latino’s in America were the main political and ethnic force that changed the status of the nation. Many of the American Latino’s were Mexicans and were the earliest settlers in America. The history of the Mexican American has united gender as an analyzed structure of the studies of the late colonial period. The women in the Mexican society illustrate the Mexican history as there have been investigations of class, race and gender relations based on supremacy. Most of the Mexican American accounts for instance, show the connection amid the Indians, Mexicans and the Anglos based on the relations of production and work demands (Zaragosa, 389).
Work cited
Molina, Natalia. Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Internet resource.
Vargas, Zaragosa. Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Print.
