| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.4

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Book Review

Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown. By Nayan Shah. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xiv + 384 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95, paper.)

In American ethnic history the study of the relationships between race, public policy, health, and citizenship in recent years has garnered scholarly attention. Nayan Shah's Contagious Divides, based primarily on federal records, private papers, and local newspapers, is an important contribution to this growing body of writings. 1

Framed by postmodernist analysis and borrowing the language of cultural studies, this work purports to probe how racialization of the Chinese community in San Francisco took place in the arena of public health. Such formations of race, Shah argues, changed across time and space as the regimes of knowledge and discourses related to public health shifted from regulation in the nineteenth to entitlement in the twentieth century. Chinese immigrants and their progeny, for their part, played a critical role in the prompting of this shift and the eventual accommodation of racial difference. . . .

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