Natalia Molina is Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. She is the author of the award-winning books How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts and Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879–1939 and coeditor of Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method, and Practice.
"""A history of the Nayarit that’s really a history of Echo Park that’s really a history of Los Angeles."" * Razorcake * ""A fascinating study of a single business’s impact on a community."" * Alta Magazine * ""A Place at the Nayarit is essential for anyone wanting to learn more about the people who tirelessly work to shape the urban landscape."" * Journal of Arizona History * ""An enthralling microhistory… It is a boon for those looking to better understand the connection between food spaces and identity and also a means to remember a non-archival based history that might otherwise be erased by current-day gentrification of Echo Park."" * Pacific Historical Review *"