Natalia Molina is a Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and is 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 (2013) and Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879–1939 (2006).

Natalia Molina

Juan De Lara is the director of the Latinx and Latin American Studies Center and an associate professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Inland Shift: Race, Space, and Capital in Southern California (2018).

Juan De Lara

George J. Sánchez is the author of the award-winning Becoming Mexican American (1993), along with numerous other books, and is a professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and history at the University of Southern California. He is the 2020–21 president of the Organization for American Historians.

George J. Sánchez

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is the Florence Everline Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Gendered Transitions (1994), Domestica (2001/2007), God’s Heart Has No Borders (2008), and Paradise Transplanted (2014), and is the editor of several others.

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

L.A., LAtinx Style: A Conversation Between Natalia Molina, Juan De Lara, George J. Sánchez, and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

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George J. Sánchez is the author of the award-winning Becoming Mexican American (1993), along with numerous other books, and is a professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and history at the University of Southern California. He is the 2020–21 president of the Organization for American Historians.