Book Talk: Kelly Lytle Hernández presents “Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands”

Bad Mexicans (Norton, 2022) tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Taking readers to the frontlines of the magonista uprising and the counterinsurgency campaign that failed to stop them, Kelly Lytle Hernández puts the magonista revolt at the heart of U.S. history. This event will be broadcasted via Facebook live: facebook.com/uclaLAI. Register for Zoom broadcast HERE.

Author / Presenter: 

Kelly Lytle Hernández
The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair of History
Director, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA

Commentator: 
Fernando Pérez-Montesinos
Assistant Professor, Department of History at UCLA

Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided to in-person attendees.

Organized by the UCLA Latin American Institute Center for Mexican Studies and co-sponsored by the UCLA Latin American Institute, the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Division of Social Sciences, the Center for the Study of International Migration, and the CSRC.