060 - Natalia Molina - A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

01/12/2023 1h 4min Episodio 60
060 - Natalia Molina - A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

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A conversation with historian Natalia Molina about their book A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community (University of California Press, 2022).
Natalia Molina is Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Dean's Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. In 2020 she was named a MacArthur Fellow. Her most recent book, A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community (University of California Press, 2022). It will be released in paperback in early 2024 and a 30% discount code will be included in a forthcoming edition of Molina's newsletter. Subscribe at https://nataliamolinaphd.com/. The book has received the following accolades:

Armitage-Jameson Prize 2023, Coalition for Western Women’s History
David J. Weber Prize 2023, Western History Association
John G. Cawelti Best Book Award 2023, Popular Culture Association
Emily Toth Award (Best Single Work) Honorable Mention, Popular Culture Association
James Beard Award (Reference, History, and Scholarship) Finalist 2023, James Beard Foundation
PROSE Award North American & US History Finalist 2023, Association of American University Presses
Porchlight Business Book Awards (Narrative & Biography) Longlist 2022, Porchlight Book Company

 
Prior to this, Molina was the author of the award-winning books Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879–1939 (University of California Press, 2006), How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts (University of California Press, 2014), and coeditor of Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method, and Practice (University of California Press, 2019).
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Host and Producer Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Redd Center, an Associate Professor of History at BYU, General Editor of the Intermountain Histories project, and author of the 2018 book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands. Links to other publications and projects here: https://linktr.ee/bwrensink
Support provided by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University.

Podcast Music was written and recorded by local Provo composer by Micah Dahl Anderson.

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