Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernández
Tuesday, April 18th 7 p.m.
Rose Hills Theater, Smith Campus Center
“Million Dollar Hoods: The Costs of Incarceration in Los Angeles”
Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández is professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at the University of California at Los Angeles and serves as director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. Lytle Hernández is one of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration and is the author of award-winning books, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol, and City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles. She most recently authored the work, Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands. She is also a MacArthur Fellow.
Professor Lytle Hernández will talk about “Million Dollar Hoods,” a digital-based, community-driven research project that maps and documents the human costs of mass incarceration on communities and families in Los Angeles and beyond.
About the Lectureship
Endowed in 1980 through the generosity of Ena H. Thompson, these annual lectures encourage a broader understanding and appreciation of history. Generally held in the spring semester, the lectureship brings a distinguished historian to the Pomona College campus for a week of intensive interaction with students, faculty, and alumni. The visiting lecturers are elected both on the basis of their past contributions to the discipline and of the importance of their current research in advancing the field. Typically, they offer two public lectures on campus during the week of their residency and another lecture for alumni at a dinner event in the greater Los Angeles area.
Past Ena H. Thompson Distinguished Lecturers
2022 Natalia Molina
2021 Angela Davis
2019 Kate Brown
2018 Andrew Bacevich
2017 James C. Scott
2016 Greg Grandin
2015 Kasia Cwiertka
2014 Tiya A. Miles
2013 Gail Hershatter
2012 Fred M. Donner
2011 Gilbert Gonzales
2010 Thomas R. Metcalf
2009 Louis A. Pérez, Jr.
2008 Pamela H. Smith
2007 David Roediger / Stanley Nelson
2006 Patricia Ebrey
2005 Dominick La Capra
2004 Robin D. G. Kelley
2003 Gilbert M. Joseph
2002 Patricia Nelson Limerick
2001 Linda Colley
2000 Vicki L. Ruiz / Antonia Castańeda
1999 Allan Bérubé
1998 Lynn Hunt
1997 Peter Brown
1996 Tetsuo Najita
1995 Ramón Eduardo Ruiz
1994 John Higginson
1993 G.W. Bowersock
1992 John H. Elliot
1991 Bernard Bailyn
1990 Ramón Gutiérrez
1989 Wolfgang J. Momsen
1988 Jonathan P. Spence
1987 A.W.B. Simpson
1986 Keith Thomas
1985 Natalie Zemon Davis
1984 Carl E. Schorske
1983 Richard Pipes
1982 Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
1981 Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie
1980 Peter Gay