The story gained so much traction immediately with people, because there's such a long history affecting many different racial and ethnic groups, across many institutions -- mental health hospitals, public hospitals, prisons.

Natalia Molina

Natalia Molina (Professor) is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Urban Studies at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). At UCSD she is also Associate Dean for Faculty Equity in the Division of Arts and Humanities. Molina received her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Michigan and her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the author of Fit To Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 (2006) and How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts (2013). In 2007, Molina was the winner of the PCB-American Historical Association's Norris and Carol Hundley Award for her first book, Fit to be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879–1939.

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