The department of Ethnic Studies and the College of Liberal Arts proudly presents a talk by Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernandez on her latest book titled, “Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands” about the dramatic story of the Magonistas–the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. This event is part of the CLA Speaker Series.
Kelly Lytle Hernandez is a professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at UCLA where she holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and is the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. One of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, Professor Hernandez is the author of the award-winning books and she is the Principal Investigator for Million Dollar Hoods, a university-based, community-drive research project that maps the fiscal and human cost of mass incarceration in Los Angeles.
Hernandez has also been named a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians for her historical and contemporary research. She is also an elected member of the Society of American Historians and the Pulitzer Prize Board.
For more information, please contact Dr. Jenell Navarro at [email protected]
