Kelly Lytle Hernandez & Million Dollar Hoods panel & workshop

This is part of series of events curated by ISLA Visiting Scholar, Vicki Ruiz.

Million Dollar Hoods maps the fiscal and human cost of mass incarceration by showing how much the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and the Los Angeles Police Department spent on incarceration between 2010 and 2015. The maps do not show where arrests are made. Rather, the maps show the neighborhoods where persons arrested by LASD and LAPD live and how much LAPD and/or LASD spent to incarcerate them. Currently highlighted on the map are the thirty-one neighborhoods where LAPD and LASD spent at least $6 million between 2010 and 2015.
 

Kelly Lytle Hernandez is a Professor of History and African American Studies at UCLA. She is also the Interim Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. One of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, she is the author of the award-winning books, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), and City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). City of Inmates recently won the 2018 James Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, 2018 Athearn Prize from the Western Historical Association, the 2018 John Hope Franklin Book Prize from the American Studies Association, and the 2018 American Book Award. The book trailer for City of Inmates can be found here.  Currently, Professor Lytle Hernandez is the Principal Investigator for Million Dollar Hoods, a university-based, community-driven research project that maps the fiscal and human cost of mass incarceration in Los Angeles. And she is completing two monographs for Norton Books on the history of race and resistance in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.