Charting Contagions: Data Visualization of Disease in Late 19th-Century San Francisco Chinatown

In the late 1800s in San Francisco, Chinese immigrants faced racism and were blamed for the city’s public health crisis. To the rest of San Francisco, disease originated from Chinese people. However, through data visualization we can see that this was not the case. This paper maps cases of disease a...

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Main Author: Pashby, Michele
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2019
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Online Access:https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2185
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3260&context=cmc_theses