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MacArthur Genius Natalia Molina unveils the hidden history of the
Nayarit, a restaurant in Los Angeles that nourished its community
of Mexican immigrants with a sense of belonging. In 1951, Dona
Natalia Barraza opened the Nayarit, a Mexican restaurant in Echo
Park, Los Angeles. With A Place at the Nayarit, historian Natalia
Molina traces the life's work of her grandmother, remembered by all
who knew her as Dona Natalia--a generous, reserved, and
extraordinarily capable woman. Dona Natalia immigrated alone from
Mexico to L.A., adopted two children, and ran a successful
business. She also sponsored, housed, and employed dozens of other
immigrants, encouraging them to lay claim to a city long
characterized by anti-Latinx racism. Together, the employees and
customers of the Nayarit maintained ties to their old homes while
providing one another safety and support. The Nayarit was much more
than a popular eating spot: it was an urban anchor for a robust
community, a gathering space where ethnic Mexican workers and
customers connected with their patria chica (their "small
country"). That meant connecting with distinctive tastes, with one
another, and with the city they now called home. Through deep
research and vivid storytelling, Molina follows restaurant workers
from the kitchen and the front of the house across borders and
through the decades. These people's stories illuminate the many
facets of the immigrant experience: immigrants' complex networks of
family and community and the small but essential pleasures of daily
life, as well as cross-currents of gender and sexuality and
pressures of racism and segregation. The Nayarit was a local
landmark, popular with both Hollywood stars and restaurant workers
from across the city and beloved for its fresh, traditionally
prepared Mexican food. But as Molina argues, it was also, and most
importantly, a place where ethnic Mexicans and other Latinx L.A.
residents could step into the fullness of their lives, nourishing
themselves and one another. A Place at the Nayarit is a stirring
exploration of how racialized minorities create a sense of
belonging. It will resonate with anyone who has felt like an
outsider and had a special place where they felt like an insider.
Some years-1789, 1929, 1989-change the world suddenly. Or do they?
In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse,
inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises
sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world-like
many patients-met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which
together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn't the
year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world
finally understood its deadly diagnosis. In The Long Year, some of
the world's most incisive thinkers excavate 2020's buried crises,
revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more
equal future. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor calls for the defunding of
police and the refunding of communities; Keisha Blain demonstrates
why the battle against racism must be global; and Adam Tooze
reveals that COVID-19 hit hardest where inequality was already
greatest and welfare states weakest. Yarimar Bonilla, Xiaowei Wang,
Simon Balto, Marcia Chatelain, Gautam Bhan, Ananya Roy, and others
offer insights from the factory farms of China to the elite resorts
of France, the meatpacking plants of the Midwest to the overcrowded
hospitals of India. The definitive guide to these ongoing
catastrophes, The Long Year shows that only by exposing the roots
and ramifications of 2020 can another such breakdown be prevented.
It is made possible through institutional partnerships with Public
Books and the Social Science Research Council.
"How Race Is Made in America" examines Mexican AmericansOCofrom
1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the
United States, to 1965, when many quotas were abolishedOCoto
understand how broad themes of race and citizenship are
constructed. These years shaped the emergence of what Natalia
Molina describes as an "immigration regime"," " which defined the
racial categories that continue to influence perceptions in the
United States about Mexican Americans, race, and ethnicity.
Molina demonstrates that despite the multiplicity of influences
that help shape our concept of race, common themes prevail.
Examining legal, political, social, and cultural sources related to
immigration, she advances the theory that our understanding of race
is socially constructed in relational waysOCothat is, in
correspondence to other groups. Molina introduces and explains her
central theory, "racial scripts"," " which highlights the ways in
which the lives of racialized groups are linked across time and
space and thereby affect one another. "How Race Is Made in America
"also shows that these racial scripts are easily adopted and
adapted "t"o apply to different racial groups."
Some years-1789, 1929, 1989-change the world suddenly. Or do they?
In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse,
inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises
sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world-like
many patients-met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which
together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn't the
year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world
finally understood its deadly diagnosis. In The Long Year, some of
the world's most incisive thinkers excavate 2020's buried crises,
revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more
equal future. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor calls for the defunding of
police and the refunding of communities; Keisha Blain demonstrates
why the battle against racism must be global; and Adam Tooze
reveals that COVID-19 hit hardest where inequality was already
greatest and welfare states weakest. Yarimar Bonilla, Xiaowei Wang,
Simon Balto, Marcia Chatelain, Gautam Bhan, Ananya Roy, and others
offer insights from the factory farms of China to the elite resorts
of France, the meatpacking plants of the Midwest to the overcrowded
hospitals of India. The definitive guide to these ongoing
catastrophes, The Long Year shows that only by exposing the roots
and ramifications of 2020 can another such breakdown be prevented.
It is made possible through institutional partnerships with Public
Books and the Social Science Research Council.
Relational Formations of Race brings African American,
Chicanx/Latinx, Asian American, and Native American studies
together in a single volume, enabling readers to consider the
racialization and formation of subordinated groups in relation to
one another. 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. The chapters offer explicit
guides to understanding race as relational across all disciplines,
time periods, regions, and social groups. 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. As the United States shifts
toward a minority-majority nation, Relational Formations of Race
offers crucial tools for understanding today's shifting race
dynamics.
Relational Formations of Race brings African American,
Chicanx/Latinx, Asian American, and Native American studies
together in a single volume, enabling readers to consider the
racialization and formation of subordinated groups in relation to
one another. 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. The chapters offer explicit
guides to understanding race as relational across all disciplines,
time periods, regions, and social groups. 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. As the United States shifts
toward a minority-majority nation, Relational Formations of Race
offers crucial tools for understanding today's shifting race
dynamics.
In Deportation in the Americas: Histories of Exclusion and
Resistance, editors Kenyon Zimmer and Cristina Salinas have
compiled seven essays, adapted from the Walter Prescott Webb
Memorial Lecture Series, that deeply consider deportation policy in
the Americas and its global effects. These thoughtful pieces
significantly contribute to a growing historiography on deportation
within immigration studies-a field that usually focuses on arriving
immigrants and their adaptation. All contributors have expanded
their analysis to include transnational and global histories, while
recognizing that immigration policy is firmly developed within the
structure of the nation-state. Thus, the authors do not abandon
national peculiarity regarding immigration policy, but as Emily
Pope-Obeda observes, "from its very inception, immigration
restriction was developed with one eye looking outward."
Contributors note that deportation policy can signal friendship or
cracks within the relationships between nations. Rather than solely
focusing on immigration policy in the abstract, the authors remain
cognizant of the very real effects domestic immigration policies
have on deportees and push readers to think about how the mobility
and lives of individuals come to be controlled by the state, as
well as the ways in which immigrants and their allies have resisted
and challenged deportation. From the development of the concept of
an "anchor baby" to continued policing of those who are
foreign-born, Deportation in the Americas is an essential resource
for understanding this critical and timely topic.
How Race Is Made in America examines Mexican Americans--from 1924,
when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United
States, to 1965, when many quotas were abolished--to understand how
broad themes of race and citizenship are constructed. These years
shaped the emergence of what Natalia Molina describes as an
immigration regime, which defined the racial categories that
continue to influence perceptions in the United States about
Mexican Americans, race, and ethnicity. Molina demonstrates that
despite the multiplicity of influences that help shape our concept
of race, common themes prevail. Examining legal, political, social,
and cultural sources related to immigration, she advances the
theory that our understanding of race is socially constructed in
relational ways--that is, in correspondence to other groups. Molina
introduces and explains her central theory, racial scripts, which
highlights the ways in which the lives of racialized groups are
linked across time and space and thereby affect one another. How
Race Is Made in America also shows that these racial scripts are
easily adopted and adapted to apply to different racial groups.
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, "Fit to Be
Citizens?" demonstrates how both science and public health shaped
the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. 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. 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. 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. 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. MolinaOCOs 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."
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