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Kelly Lytle Hernández

Kelly Lytle Hernández is Associate Professor of History and Black Studies at UCLA. Her book Migra! explores the untold history of the U.S. Border Patrol.

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Throughout the twentieth century, bipartisan consensus was that black youth were latent criminals in need of abundant policing.

Kelly Lytle Hernández

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