Managing Board
Natalia Molina
University of California, San Diego http://www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/faculty/molina.shtml Natalia Molina is associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her first book, Fit to be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939, explored ways in which race is constructed relationally and regionally. In that work, she argued that race must be understood comparatively. Her current book project, Racial Amnesia: The Search for a Usable Past, extends that argument to a different site, immigration. She investigates how Americans from various regions and disparate backgrounds went about creating and understanding racial categories during a period of peak immigration in the early twentieth century.
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