纳塔利娅-莫利纳 美国历史学家

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Natalia Molina
American Historian | Class of 2020
Revealing how narratives of racial difference that were constructed and applied to immigrant groups a century ago continue to shape national policy today.


Portrait of Natalia Molina

Title
American Historian
Affiliation
University of Southern California | Department of American Studies and Ethnicity
Location
Los Angeles, California
Age
49 at time of award
Area of Focus
American History
Website
nataliamolinaphd.com/
University of Southern California: Natalia Molina
Social
Twitter
Published October 6, 2020
ABOUT NATALIA'S WORK
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. She considers the histories of Latinx and Asian immigrants in relation to one another, drawing out connections among the systems of exclusion and segregation they have faced.

In her first book, Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879–1939 (2006), Molina documents the ways in which the medical establishment used public health campaigns to contain, control, and categorize immigrant groups. Spanning a six-decade, peak-migration era, when a rapidly expanding Los Angeles was particularly dependent on low-wage labor, her study explores how the county health department classified first Chinese, then Japanese, then Mexican workers as inherently healthy or disease-ridden, clean or unclean, moral or profligate. Such classifications further limited these populations’ access to housing and medical services and stigmatized members of these groups as threats to public health in ways that persist to this day. Molina’s second book, How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts (2014), delves into a broad range of archival sources to analyze the characterization of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants as unsuitable for citizenship and subject to deportation during the middle decades of the twentieth century. She also advances a theory of racial scripts, a framework she employs to explain how certain attitudes, stereotypes, and policies of exclusion have been adapted and applied to different marginalized groups across historical periods and geographies. Molina is currently at work on two new book projects. “Place-makers: The Story of an Ethnic Mexican Community in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles” centers on the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, where Mexican restaurants fostered multi-ethnic community bonds. By telling the story of these vibrant and cosmopolitan institutions, she seeks to recover histories that have been erased by gentrification and to challenge negative representations of neighborhoods similar to Echo Park as “barrio wastelands” in need of redevelopment. In “The Silent Hands that Shaped the Huntington: A History of Its Mexican Gardeners,” she continues her investigation into the role of ethnic Mexicans in the making of Los Angeles.

In addition to her scholarship, Molina addresses current events and issues such as birthright citizenship and the denial of services to immigrant families in opinion pieces in national media outlets and on social media. Molina sheds light on recurring patterns of discrimination and articulates for academic and general readers alike how regional practices implemented over a century ago continue to influence perceptions and policies at the national level.

BIOGRAPHY
Natalia Molina received a BA (1993) from the University of California at Los Angeles and an MA (1996) and PhD (2001) from the University of Michigan. From 2001 to 2018, she taught in the Departments of History and Ethnic Studies and the Urban Studies Program at the University of California at San Diego, where she also served as associate dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities and associate vice chancellor for Faculty Diversity and Equity. She is currently a professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and, for the 2020-2021 academic year, a Huntington Library Fellow. Molina has published articles in such journals as American Journal of Public Health, Southern California Quarterly, Western Historical Quarterly, Pacific Historical Review, and Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, among others. She is also the co-editor of Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method, and Practice (2019).

IN NATALIA'S WORDS
NataliaMolina:"Ifweunderstandthemanyhistoricalfactorsthatshapedwherewearetoday,thenwehavethepowertore-imaginewherewecangofromhere."
  

“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it,” is a quote that people often use when they want to show the importance of history. But this quote encourages us to think that history is in the past. My work shows how histories—especially as they pertain to the stories we tell about race, and the policies we develop around race—are still very much with us today. If we understand the many historical factors that shaped where we are today, then we have the power to re-imagine where we can go from here.



纳塔利娅-莫利纳
美国历史学家｜2020级
揭示一个世纪前构建并应用于移民群体的种族差异叙事如何在今天继续影响国家政策。


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标题
美国历史学家
工作单位
南加州大学美国研究与民族系
工作地点
洛杉矶，加利福尼亚
年龄
获奖时49岁
重点领域
美国历史
网站
nataliamolinaphd.com/
南加州大学。纳塔利娅-莫利纳
社会
推特
发表于2020年10月6日
关于纳塔利娅的工作
纳塔利娅-莫利纳是一位历史学家，研究种族概念、公民权概念和归属问题是如何从种族差异的叙述中产生的，这些叙述随着时间的推移被应用于美国不同的移民群体。她考虑了拉丁裔和亚裔移民的历史，指出他们所面临的排斥和隔离制度之间的联系。

在她的第一本书《适合做公民吗？洛杉矶的公共卫生和种族，1879-1939》（2006）中，莫利纳记录了医疗机构利用公共卫生运动遏制、控制和分类移民群体的方式。她的研究跨越了六十年的移民高峰期，当时快速扩张的洛杉矶特别依赖低工资的劳动力，她的研究探讨了县卫生部门如何首先将中国人，然后是日本人，然后是墨西哥工人划分为固有的健康或疾病，清洁或不清洁，道德或挥霍。这种分类进一步限制了这些人群获得住房和医疗服务的机会，并将这些群体的成员污名化为对公共卫生的威胁，这种方式一直持续到今天。莫利纳的第二本书《种族是如何在美国形成的：移民、公民身份和种族脚本的历史力量》（2014年）深入研究了广泛的档案资料，分析了二十世纪中期墨西哥裔美国人和墨西哥移民被定性为不适合成为公民并被驱逐出境的情况。她还提出了一个种族脚本的理论，她用这个框架来解释某些态度、陈规定型观念和排斥政策是如何在不同的历史时期和地理环境中适应和应用于不同的边缘化群体。莫利纳目前正在进行两个新书项目。"场所制造者。二十世纪洛杉矶墨西哥民族社区的故事 "以洛杉矶回声公园社区为中心，那里的墨西哥餐馆促进了多民族的社区联系。通过讲述这些充满活力的世界性机构的故事，她试图恢复被绅士化抹去的历史，并挑战将类似回声公园的社区视为需要重建的 "巴里奥荒地 "的负面表述。在《塑造亨廷顿的无声之手。在 "塑造亨廷顿的无声之手：墨西哥园丁的历史 "中，她继续调查墨西哥裔人在洛杉矶建设中的作用。

除了她的学术研究，莫利纳还在全国性媒体和社交媒体的评论文章中讨论当前事件和问题，如出生公民权和拒绝向移民家庭提供服务。莫利纳揭示了反复出现的歧视模式，并为学术界和普通读者阐明了一个多世纪前实施的区域做法如何继续影响国家层面的观念和政策。

个人简历
纳塔利娅-莫利纳在加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校获得学士学位（1993年），在密歇根大学获得硕士学位（1996年）和博士学位（2001年）。2001年至2018年，她在加州大学圣地亚哥分校的历史和民族研究系以及城市研究项目任教，并担任艺术和人文部门的副院长以及负责教师多样性和平等的副校长。她目前是南加州大学美国研究和民族系的教授，并在2020-2021学年担任亨廷顿图书馆研究员。莫利纳在《美国公共卫生杂志》、《南加州季刊》、《西部历史季刊》、《太平洋历史评论》和《阿兹兰》等杂志上发表过文章。A Journal of Chicano Studies，等等。她还是《种族的关系形态：理论、方法和实践》（2019）的共同编辑。

纳塔利娅的话
纳塔利娅-莫利纳："如果我们了解了塑造我们今天的许多历史因素，那么我们就有能力想象我们从哪里走来。"
  

"不学习历史的人注定要重蹈覆辙"，这是人们在想说明历史的重要性时经常使用的一句话。但这句话鼓励我们认为历史已经成为过去。我的工作表明，历史--尤其是与我们讲述的种族故事有关的历史，以及我们围绕种族制定的政策--今天仍然与我们息息相关。如果我们理解了塑造我们今天的许多历史因素，那么我们就有能力重新想象我们能从这里走到哪里。