Kathleen Lytle Hernandez

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 Lytle Hernandez is the author of the award-winning books, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), and City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). Her dissertation is a history of the United States Border Patrol that focuses upon the tangle of patrolling national borders and policing racial divides in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands where Border Patrol officers have consistently substituted policing Mexicano people for patrolling the Mexican border.