In How Race is Made in America author Natalia Molina introduces the concept of racial scripts which also become and overarching theme throughout the book. Racial scripts highlight the ways in which the lives of racialized groups are linked across time and space and thereby affect one another, even when not directly crossing paths. (Molina 2014: 6) Molina argues that the perceived position of a group is represented when its members are seen as relative to other groups through this space identified in the definition of racial scripts. For Mexicans, the lack of citizenship in combination with racial scripts has led to the dominant group expropriating a resource produced by members of racialzed groups preventing them from realizing the full value
