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Historians Imagine: Celebrating Creativity in the Craft with Natalia Molina, USC

Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method, and Practice

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Date:泭June 9, 2021
Time:泭12:00PM
Where:泭Virtual

[video:https://youtu.be/3tdR9FtZ4is]

Natalia Molina泭is a historian who examines the interconnectedness of racial and ethnic communities through her concept of racial scripts. Author of泭How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts泭and泭Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1940.

Historians Imagineis a monthly webinar devoted to this dimension of the craft. Patty Limerick and Matthew Jacobson talk with path-breaking historians about the inventiveness and vision of their work, and about the more mysterious aspects of their practicestheir imaginative spark and the virtues that lie泭beyond rigor泭and out of reach of your typical how to manual. These conversations will appeal to professional historians, to be sure, and might offer liberation from the academys constraints and the disciplining demands of convention. But they will equally engage anyone who is interested in how new stories are made from old materials, and how great storytellers and historical sleuths think to do what they do.

Patty Limerick is the Faculty Director and Chair of the Board at 91勛圖厙s Center of the American West. Matthew Frye Jacobson is William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies and History at Yale. He is the author of seven books on race, politics, and culture in the United States.

I dont find anything particularly magical about my creation process. I think, share, write, share, re-write, share, re-write, share and eventually it feels done. What some people see as magic and creativity I see as writing before Im ready, getting feedback and rewriting


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