Anti-Chinese Discrimination in Twentieth Century America: Perceptions of Chinese Americans During the Third Bubonic Plague Pandemic in San Francisco, 1900-1908
Journal: OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network)
Year: 2010

The bubonic plague arrived in San Francisco in 1900 during the third pandemic of the disease.After infiltrating the local rat population, the plague quickly spread to the Chinese region of the city known as Chinatown.Mainstream society blamed the Chinese for bringing the disease to America, but the reason why the plague was prevalent in this area was the unsanitary, overcrowded living conditions that existed here.The fact that the disease was believed to be "Asiatic" in nature had much to do wit