The Burke Lecture Welcomes MacArthur Fellow and UCLA professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning, Dr. Lytle Hernández, for an intriguing discussion on Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands. Doors open at 5:30 and the event is from 6:00 to 8:30pm on the UC San Diego campus at The Jeannie Auditorium, located at North Torrey Pines Living Learning Neighborhood. Refreshments will be provided.

This event is supported by the Eugene M. Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society, which sponsors public lectures in which scholars, theologians, and religious practitioners address critical issues on the relationship between religion and society and on the religious dimensions of being human. Since its inception in 1985, the Burke Lectureship has hosted more than 75 lectures at UC San Diego.

Kelly Lytle Hernández is a professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at UCLA where she holds The Thomas E. LiAka Endowed Chair in History and directs the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. One of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, she is the author of Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), and Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Norton, 2022). She also leads Million Dollar Hoods, which maps Aiscal and human cost of mass incarceration in Los Angeles. For her historical and contemporary work, Professor Lytle Hernández was named a 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow. She is also an elected member of the Society of American Historians, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Pulitzer Prize Board.

Awarded the 2023 Bancroft Prize, Bad Mexicans 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 uprising and the U.S./Mexico counter insurgency campaign that failed to stop it, Lytle Hernandez puts the magonista revolt at the heart of U.S. history. Long ignored by textbooks, the magonistas threatened to undo the rise of Anglo American power, on both sides of the border, and inspired a revolution that gave birth to the Mexican-American population, making the magonista story integral to modern American life.

This event is FREE and space will be limited.

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Parking Notice: The closest parking structure to The Jeannie Auditorium is Scholars. Parking on campus requires either a UCSD-issued parking permit or short-term permit that can be purchased at self-service machines located in the front and back (left-hand side) of the Scholars parking structure (street-level). Paid visitor parking spots are marked with a “V”. Note that the booths are unmanned.

The Jeannie Auditorium is located above the Scholars Parking Structure.