Kelly Lytle Hernández
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.
Kelly Lytle Hernández
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.
Awards
Longlisted — Cundill History Prize, 2022
Longlisted — National Book Award, 2022
Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2022
Shortlisted — PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, 2023
Shortlisted — Mark Lynton History Prize, 2023
Winner — Bancroft Prize, 2023
Books by Kelly Lytle Hernández
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Kelly Lytle Hernández
Hardback, 2022
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Kelly Lytle Hernández
E Book, 2022
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Kelly Lytle Hernández
Paperback, 2023
Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction
“Rebel historian” Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of US history in this ground breaking narrative of revolution in the...