Interview with Kelly Lytle Hernández

MacArthur Fellow, Kelly Lytle Hernández, is one of the leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration in the United States. In this interview with Vale Rendón, she speaks about her book City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965, state violence against ethnic minorities, colonialism, mass incarceration, white supremacy, and more.
Interview ​by
Hector "Vale" Rendón
​10/28/2020
Héctor "Vale" Rendón (Mazatlán, México) is a publisher, writer, academic, and journalist. He currently works as Assistant Professor at the Newhouse School in Syracuse University. He has written three novels and has lived in five different countries. As a journalist, he has worked for more than a decade as editor, foreign correspondent, TV reporter, multimedia reporter, and editor-in-chief for several media outlets. His main areas of academic study are focused on media narratives about minorities in different social contexts. Throughout his life he has received several awards and grants that support both his academic and creative work.
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