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Kelly Lytle Hernández

Bylines

How Crossing the US-Mexico Border Became a Crime

Only in the past 100 years has unauthorized immigration become a crime.

by Kelly Lytle Hernández via The Conversation on April 30, 2017
The Long History of Deportation Scare Tactics at the U.S.-Mexico Border

The precedents for Trump’s hyped-up immigration crackdown.

by Kelly Lytle Hernández, Cora Currier via The Intercept on February 26, 2017

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

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Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magón at the Los Angeles County Jail, circa 1916.

An American Story

Kelly Lytle Hernández’s new book chronicles the tumultuous period leading up to the Mexican Revolution, casting the border as ground zero for continental change.

by Francisco Cantú via New York Review of Books on March 9, 2023

Ricardo Flores Magon's mugshot.

The Anarchist Who Authored the Mexican Revolution

A new history of the rebels led by Ricardo Flores Magón emphasizes the role of the United States in the effort to take them down.

by Geraldo Cadava via The New Yorker on October 5, 2022

Black and white image of people observing photographs hanging on the wall at an exhibition in Oaxaca in 1999 about magonismo.

The Mexican Revolution as U.S. History

Making the case for why U.S. history only makes sense when told as a binational story.

by Jonna Perrillo via Boston Review on August 4, 2022

Mass Incarceration Didn't Start with the War on Crime

A review of "City of Inmates" by Kelly Lytle Hernández.

by Llana Barber via The Metropole on April 24, 2019

An aerial view of the International Bridge over the in Rio Grande, Laredo, Texas.

The Image of Control

Following the careers of a family of especially corrupt border control officials.

by John Weber via HNN on June 11, 2024

Television camera operator at work.

Latino Empowerment Through Public Broadcasting

How Latinos have used public radio and television to communicate their cultures, histories, hopes, and concerns.

by Alexandra García, Gabriela Rivera via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on November 23, 2021

The Invention of the Police

Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on July 13, 2020

Immigration Enforcement and the U.S.-Mexico Border

A microsyllabus on the history of the U.S.-Mexico border, refugees, and deportation.

by Adam Goodman, Maddalena Marinari, Evan Tarapata, María Cristina García via The Abusable Past on September 11, 2019

When the Frontier Becomes the Wall

What the border fight means for one of the nation’s most potent, and most violent, myths.

by Francisco Cantú via The New Yorker on March 4, 2019

America’s Lost History of Border Violence

Texas Rangers and vigilantes killed thousands of Mexican-Americans in a campaign of terror. Will Texas acknowledge the bloodshed?

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 5, 2016

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