Preview
Veronica Martinez-Matsuda This chapter documents how the U.S. Farm Security Administration aimed to improve Mexican farmworkers’ dire health status through direct medical treatment and social and cultural reform. Such efforts paradoxically helped Mexican families achieve improved health even as they frequently perpetuated racialized views blaming Mexicans for their poor condition.
Keywords: Traditional healing; Ethnic Studies; Medicine; African Americans; Native Americans; Critical Race Theory; Public health; Mexican Americans; Asian Americans; Immigration Studies
Chapter. 9534 words. Illustrated.
Subjects: History of Science and Technology
Go to University Press Scholarship Online » abstract
Full text: subscription required
How to subscribe Recommend to my Librarian
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content. Please, subscribe or login to access all content.
