Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. 24 A critical contribution.”, Matthew Frye Jacobson, author of Whiteness By studying race relationally, and through a shared context of meaning and power, students will draw connections among subordinated groups and will better comprehend the logic that underpins the forms of inclusion and dispossession such groups face. How Race Is Made in America also shows that these racial scripts are easily adopted and adapted to apply to different racial groups. Her first book, Fit to be Citizens? 1 Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method, and Practice, ( is a sophisticated monograph that should serve as a model for ethnic studies scholarship on race, health, and the body politic in modern America.”. [5], "MacArthur Foundation Announces 21 'Genius' Grant Winners", "USC's Natalia Molina wins MacArthur fellowship for work on immigrant stereotypes", "MacArthur Foundation awards Natalia Molina distinguished "genius grant" > News > USC Dornsife", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Natalia_Molina&oldid=982335534, University of Southern California faculty, University of California, Los Angeles alumni, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 2007: PCB-American Historical Association's Norris and Carol Hundley Award, 2020: MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" Fellowship, This page was last edited on 7 October 2020, at 14:35. Join Facebook to connect with Natalia Molina and others you may know. Western Historical Quarterly, Winter 2014 issue, 45.4. The book's argument connects the experiences of different racialized groups by showing how and when they intersect as racial categories are constituted in American society. How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts, University of California Press, 2014. See full bio » Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography. Follow to get new release updates and improved recommendations. Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 92.5k Followers, 516 Following, 97 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Natalia de Molina (@nataliademolina) Her first book, Fit to be Citizens? Fit to Be Citizens? American Journal of Public Health, 101 no. Molina studies the intersections of race, gender, culture, and citizenship. She is the author of Fit To Be Citizens? 22-37. Molina demonstrates that despite the multiplicity of influences that help shape our concept of race, common themes prevail. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, after which she joined the University of California, San Diego faculty. Its rich archival grounding provides a valuable history of public health in Los Angeles, living conditions among Mexican immigrants, and the ways in which regional racial categories influence national laws and practices. She previously served on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the University of California’s President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, as well as a six-year term on the board of California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. 82, No. The book skillfully moves beyond the binary oppositions that usually structure works in ethnic studies by deploying comparative and relational approaches that reveal the racialization of Mexican Americans as intimately associated with the relative historical and social positions of Asian Americans, African Americans, and whites. Molina's 2013 book How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts examines Mexican immigration to the United States. She shows how the racialization of Mexican Americans was not simply a matter of legal exclusion or labor exploitation, but rather that scientific discourses and public health practices played a key role in assigning negative racial characteristics to the group. Natalia Molina is an American historian and Professor of American Studies at the University of Southern California. Natalia Molina is a historian examining how concepts of race, notions of citizenship, and questions of belonging emerged from narratives of racial difference that have been applied to distinct immigrant groups in the United States over time. These essays conceptualize racialization as a dynamic and interactive process; group-based racial constructions are formed not only in relation to whiteness, but also in relation to other devalued and marginalized groups. Through a careful examination of the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, Natalia Molina illustrates the many ways local health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and ultimately define racial groups. 4, November 2013, 520-541. in Deportation in the Americas: Histories of Exclusion and Resistance (note: in Italics just like the journal citation information View the profiles of people named Natalia Molina. Professor Molina enjoys opportunities for intellectual and cultural exchanges and has lectured publicly in Latin America, Asia, Europe, as well as over 30 of the 50 United States. Molina received her B.A. Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939, explored the ways in which race is constructed relationally and regionally. Natalia de Molina (born 19 December 1990) is a Spanish actress, winner of … Professor, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Fellowship, Professor, Department of History & Urban Studies Program, University of California, San Diego, Associate Professor, Department of History & Urban Studies Program, University of California, San Diego, Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies & Urban Studies Program, University of California, San Diego, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies & Urban Studies, University of California, San Diego, Inaugural Dean’s Administration Mellon Foundation Fellow, Associate Dean, Division of Arts and Humanities, Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Diversity and Equity, Associate Dean for Faculty Equity, Division of Arts & Humanities, Director of Graduate Studies, Ethnic Studies Department, Director for University of California Education Abroad Program, Spain, History & Women’s Studies Double Major University of California, Los Angeles, U.S. History University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 350 student lecture course Thurgood Marshall College Freshmen course. : Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1940, University of California Press, 2006. Her scholarship has been described as "an exciting contribution to the growing body of scholarship that knits the history of medicine and public health more tightly into the fabric of the American past..."[1] and as making an “important contribution to the literature on the histories of public health, race, labor, and urban planning by demonstrating the magnitude of public health officials‘ influence on city policy and planning and on the development of racial hierarchies”. In 2018, she was the Organization of American Historians China Residency scholar. She has also served twice as the Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities and before that as the Director for University of California Education Abroad Program in Spain. She extends her work on racial scripts in her co-edited volume, Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method, and Practice. 1, pp. Radical History Review, December 2005, pp. Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939, explored the … She is also a certified mediator. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. She received a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship for her work on race and citizenship. She has also been the recipient of various awards for her diversity work, including by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. 69-111. ). Molina’s compelling study advances our understanding of the complexity of racial politics, attesting that racism is not static and that different groups can occupy different places in the racial order at different times. “An important advance on previous dissections of the close (and ongoing) links between medicine and racialization in the United States …, … Molina has written an engaging history that is all the more compelling for its relevance to racialization in the 21st century.”, “Molina accomplishes a formidable feat in this book through incisive analysis, elegant prose, and a passionate engagement with the cruel paradox …, … that groups who suffer poor health due to political, social, and economic disenfranchisement all too often are scapegoated as disease vectors.