Fevered Measures

Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848–1942

AvJohn Mckiernan-González

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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In Fevered Measures, John Mckiernan-GonzÁlez examines public health campaigns along the Texas-Mexico border between 1848 and 1942 and reveals the changing medical and political frameworks U.S. health authorities used when facing the threat of epidemic disease. The medical borders created by these officials changed with each contagion and sometimes varied from the existing national borders. Federal officers sought to distinguish Mexican citizens from U.S. citizens, a process troubled by the deeply interconnected nature of border communities. Mckiernan-GonzÁlez uncovers forgotten or ignored cases in which Mexicans, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and other groups were subject to-and sometimes agents of-quarantines, inspections, detentions, and forced-treatment regimens. These cases illustrate the ways that medical encounters shaped border identities before and after the Mexican Revolution. Mckiernan-GonzÁlez also maintains that the threat of disease provided a venue to destabilize identity at the border, enacted processes of racialization, and re-legitimized the power of U.S. policymakers. He demonstrates how this complex history continues to shape and frame contemporary perceptions of the Latino body today.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-08-29
Mått:156 x 235 x 33 mm
Vikt:744 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:440
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9780822352570

Utforska kategorier

Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Samhällsmedicin och preventiv medicin inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

John Mckiernan-GonzÁlez is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin.

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“Mckiernan-Gonzalez . . . adds substantially to the large literature on the history of public health, particularly its role in controlling immigration into the United States.” - Stephen J. Kunitz (American Historical Review) “Fevered Measures is a wonderful and significant contribution to Latina/o studies, medical history, and borderlands history.” - Mark Allan Goldberg (Pacific Historical Review) “Fevered Measures is an engaging and multi-layered historical narrative that underscores the centrality of public health to daily life, social relations and power dynamics along the TexasMexico border over one century. . . . What makes this story particularly compelling is that Mckiernan-GonzÁlez frames it with a compassionate and informed plea for greater awareness of Latina/o health disparities.” - Alexandra Minna Stern (Global Public Health) “Mckeirnan-GonzÁlez provides a sophisticated and ﬁne-grained analysis of the work of overzealous public health ofﬁcials on the border, but he also places these efforts in a global imperial context.” - Elliott Young (Journal of American History) “Fevered Measures gives us a penetrating view of the intersections between race and public health policies, bringing new insights to the history of both the borderlands and US public health. It will be valuable to students and researchers in Chicano/Latino studies, in social sciences and humanities. Appealing also to a broader audience, this welcome book contributes significantly to the current debates about Latinos and American public health. . . .” - Ana I. Ugarte (Latino Studies)

Innehållsförteckning

Notes on Labeling Places, Peoples, and Diseases ixIntroduction 11. From the U.S.-Mexican War to the Mexican-Texas Epidemic: Fevers, Race, and the Making of a Medical Border 182. The Promise of Progress: Quarantines and the Medical Fusion of Race and Nation, 1890-1895 593. The Appearance of Progress: Black Labor, Smallpox, and the Body Politics of Transnational American Citizenship, 1895 784. The Power of Progress: Laredo and the Limits of Federal Quarantines, 1898-1903 1235. Domestic Tensions at an American Crossroads: Bordering on Gender, Labor, and Typhus Control, 1910-1920 1656. Bodies of Evidence: Vaccination and the Body Politics of Transnational Mexican Citizenship, 1910-1920 1987. Between Border Quarantine and the Texas-Mexico Border: Race, Citizenship, and National Identities, 1920-1942 236Epilogue. Moving between the Border Quarantine and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands 274Acknowledgments 285Notes 289Bibliography 363Index 403