THE IMMIGRATION HISTORY
RESEARCH CENTER is hosting “City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise
of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965” on Thursday, January 25 from 4:00 –
6:00 Pm in Andersen Library Room 120. For more information, see below.
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City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
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Thursday, Janurary 25, 2018.
4:00pm-6:00pm, 120 Andersen Library.
Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernández documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration. This event is sponsored by the Immigration History Research Center; History Department; Chicano and Latino Studies Department; Race, Indigeneity, Gender & Sexuality Studies; and James H. Binger Center for New Americans.
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Kelly Lytle Hernandez is a Professor of History and African American Studies at UCLA. She is also the Interim 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, she is the author of the award-winning book, 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). Currently, Professor Lytle Hernandez is the research lead for the Million Dollar Hoods project, which maps how much is spent on incarceration per neighborhood in Los Angeles County.
For more information go to: https://events.umn.edu
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