In Conversation with Danny Widener & Natalia Molina: Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity

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ICW and Third LA present Daniel Widener & Natalia Molina, discussing Widener’s newest book, Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity. This webinar will examine how local racial justice struggles in the United States—specifically in Southern California—are deeply tied to global, transnational anti-imperialist movements.

Born in Echo Park and raised in Venice, Danny Widener is professor of history at UC San Diego. His educational journey began at the Echo Park-Silverlake People’s Childcare Center, and it has been pretty much downhill since then. His first book, Black Arts West: culture and struggle in postwar Los Angeles (Duke, 2010), received an honorable mention for the American Studies Association’s John Hope Franklin Prize. His most recent monograph, Third Worlds Within: multiethnic movements and transnational solidarity (Duke, 2024), was awarded the John Hope Franklin Prize in 2025. He has taught at Los Angeles City College, CSUN, and the University of Cambridge.

Natalia Molina is a Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Dean’s Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Her research explores the interconnected histories of race, place, gender, culture, and citizenship. She is the author of three award-winning books: How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts; Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1940; and, most recently, A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community, which the Los Angeles Times calls an “essential Los Angeles book.”