Kelly Lytle Hernández

Longlist, 2022 National Book Awards

Kelly Lytle Hernández holds the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and African American Studies and directs the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA.
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Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

book cover for Kelly Lytle Hernández, Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
ISBN 9781324004370 W. W. Norton & Company

“Rebel historian” Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. More about this book >

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Kelly Lytle Hernández

Kelly Lytle Hernández holds the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and African American Studies and directs the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. A 2019 MacArthur Fellow, she is the author of the award-winning books Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol and City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

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