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Natalia Molina

Natalia Molina is a professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of two award-winning books, How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts (University of California Press, 2014) and Fit to Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879–1940 (University of California Press, 2006). icon

The Enduring Disposability of Latinx Workers

By Natalia Molina

When employers fail to provide PPE, testing, sick pay, or job protection, the message is clear: Latinx laborers are “not us.”

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