Those searching for a more nuanced understanding of the suburbanites should see Becky M. Nicolaides , My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002); and D.J. Waldie, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (New York: Norton, 1996).
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On the diversity of reformers within California, see William Deverell and Tom Sitton, California Progressivism Revisited (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).
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For a full discussion on health officials' policies toward Mexicans in Los Angeles, see Natalia Molina, Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006); and Emily K. Abel, Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration in Los Angeles (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007).
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See, e.g., Alan M. Kraut, Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace" (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994); Howard Markel, Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997); Susan Craddock, City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2000); and Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
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While on a lecture tour in 1905, Riis visited the Miradero sanitarium, an institution restricted to nontuberculosis and nonchronic patients. See James B. Lane, Jacob R. Riis and the American City (New York: Kennikat Press, 1974), 176. See also Letter from E.P. Leiford to Jacob Riis, March 28, 1905, Jacob A. Riis Collection, Library of Congress Collection. Regarding the sanitarium itself, see Philip King, Miradero Sanitarium ( Santa Barbara, 1900?).
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Those looking for a companion piece that discusses community formation beyond the Jim Crow era and offers contrasting views about African American perceptions of the capacity of city government to actualize civil liberties should see Josh Sides, L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).
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Those looking to understand the California suffrage movement should see Gayle Gullet, Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and Development of the California Women's Movement, 1880-1911 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000).
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Maureen A. Flanagan, "The City Profitable, the City Livable: Environmental Policy, Gender, and Power in Chicago in the 1910s," Journal of Urban History22 (1996 ): 163-90.
