UCLA
Institute of American Cultures

Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Title: Associate Professor
Department: History and African American Studies
Email: hernandez@history.ucla.edu

Current Project(s):

  • Million Dollar Hoods (milliondollarhoods.org); historian of race, policing, immigration, and incarceration in the United States
  • Director, Bunche Center for African American Studies

Available Publications/Books:

  • Hernandez, K. L. (2017). City of inmates: Conquest and the rise of human caging. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
  • Hernandez, K. L. (2010). MIGRA! A history of the U.S. border patrol. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.


Tagged: Race, Criminal Justice, Immigration