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Bad Mexicans with Kelly Lytle Hernández
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50 minutes
Released:
Oct 2, 2022
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Podcast episode
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Listeners, we're back this week with Kelly Lytle Hernández.
Kelly Lytle Hernández 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 directs the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. One of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, she is the author of Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), and Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Norton, 2022). Bad Mexicans was recently longlisted for the National Book Award. She also leads Million Dollar Hoods, a big data research initiative documenting the fiscal and human cost of mass incarceration in Los Angeles. For her historical and contemporary work, Professor Lytle Hernández was named a 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow. She is also an elected member of the Society of American Historians, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Pulitzer Prize Board.
During this episode we talked about:
04:15 - Being from a border town and how it informed her work
05:34 - Growing up pre- operation gatekeeping
09:36 - Conversation with her father
15:57 - Deciding to be a historian and her champions
16:38 - Importance of writing
20:58 - Advice to young students
25:34 - Grad school
27:46 - Going into the archives
30:13 - Her book Bad Mexicans
33:36 - ‘I need this story’
36:19 - Juana Belén Gutierrez de Mendoza
40:13 - History informing the present
41:15 - Standing on the shoulders of incredible women
This episode is brought to you by Gold Peak and First Republic Bank.
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Kelly Lytle Hernández 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 directs the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. One of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, she is the author of Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), and Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Norton, 2022). Bad Mexicans was recently longlisted for the National Book Award. She also leads Million Dollar Hoods, a big data research initiative documenting the fiscal and human cost of mass incarceration in Los Angeles. For her historical and contemporary work, Professor Lytle Hernández was named a 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow. She is also an elected member of the Society of American Historians, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Pulitzer Prize Board.
During this episode we talked about:
04:15 - Being from a border town and how it informed her work
05:34 - Growing up pre- operation gatekeeping
09:36 - Conversation with her father
15:57 - Deciding to be a historian and her champions
16:38 - Importance of writing
20:58 - Advice to young students
25:34 - Grad school
27:46 - Going into the archives
30:13 - Her book Bad Mexicans
33:36 - ‘I need this story’
36:19 - Juana Belén Gutierrez de Mendoza
40:13 - History informing the present
41:15 - Standing on the shoulders of incredible women
This episode is brought to you by Gold Peak and First Republic Bank.
Follow Kelly on all things social:
Follow Cafe con Pam on all things social
http://cafeconpam.com/
Join the FREE Cafe con Pam Challenge
Join our Discord space and let's keep the conversation going!
If you are a business owner, join us for Aligned Collective Mastermind
Learn about PowerSisters
Subscribe, rate, review, and share this episode with someone you love!
And don't ever forget to Stay Shining!
Released:
Oct 2, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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