Book Talk
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
12:30 pm
279 Haines Hall
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Migra! A History of the U.S. Border PatrolPresented by Kelly Lytle-Hernandez |
About the Speaker
KELLY LYTLE-HERNANDEZ received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 2002. She was a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego before joining the UCLA faculty in 2004. Her research interests are in twentieth-century U.S. history with a concentration upon race, migration, and police and prison systems. Her book, "MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands," is forthcoming with University of California Press. Professor Lytle Hernandez is the Associate Director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and her current research focuses on the social world of imprisonment in Los Angeles between 1890 and 1940.
This event is co-sponsored with César E. Chávez Center for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Chicano Studies Research Center, Department of History and the Center for the Study of Urban Poverty.
