Kelly Lytle Hernandez, M.A. ’00, Ph.D. ‘02

Bruin Kelly Hernandez, M.A. ’00, Ph.D. ‘02 released the exploratory book “City of Inmates” on April 10, 2017 and published by the University of North Carolina Press. The text explains how Los Angeles became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator.

Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian and Bruin Hernandez 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, Hernandez documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration.

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