define racial categories in the U.S., such as Mexican American, that persist in current perceptions of race and ethnicity. How Race Is Made in America shows how racial scripts are easily adopted and adapted to apply to different racial groups. The book's argument connects the experiences of different racialized groups by showing how and when they intersect as racial categories are constituted in American society. Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method, and Practice (Co-editor, 2019) A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community (2022) Molina's 2022 book A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community, offers a history of the Nayarit, a Mexican restaurant in Echo Park formerly owned by her grandmother, Doña Natalia Barraza. The restaurant's original location was near Boyle Heights, although it relocated to Echo Park in 1951. In this work, Molina demonstrates that working people and ethnic Mexican residents in Los Angeles fundamentally shaped public spaces in the urban landscape. She further asserts that restaurants can "serve as social spaces that shape the neighborhoods in which they are located." Molina will donate all 2022 proceeds from the book to No Us Without You, a 501c3 organization which offers food security resources to undocumented immigrants in the greater Los Angeles area. Forthcoming Work: The Silent Hands that Shaped the Huntington: A History of Its Mexican Workers Recognition In October 2020, Molina received a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship. The citation noted her work connecting historical racial narratives about immigration to current policy debates. Awards 2007: PCB-American Historical Association's Norris and Carol Hundley Award 2020: MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" Fellowship Selected works 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, 2013 References Living people American women historians 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American historians MacArthur Fellows University of Southern California faculty University of California, Los Angeles alumni University of Michigan alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Historians from California