Kelly Lytle Hernandez on Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

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Kelly Lytle Hernandez on Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

By Kweli Journal

Kelly Lytle Hernández holds the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and directs the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. A 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient, she is the author of the award-winning books Migra! and City of Inmates. She lives in Los Angeles, California. Laura Pegram is the founding editor and publisher of Kweli Journal. Author, educator, and a jazz vocalist whose cabaret performance teamed her with jazz pianist, Donald Smith, Ms. Pegram is also a painter. Her richly hued vibrant murals are part of several private collections. She has worked as a Development Associate at Scholastic Productions, Inc., as an Instructor at the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center and as an Acting Director / Instructor at the John Oliver Killens Young Writers Program.

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