California Book Club: Kelly Lytle Hernández

Описание: "Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands" author Kelly Lytle Hernández sits down for a conversation with CBC host John Freeman and special guest Héctor Tobar.

"Bad Mexicans" is historian Hernández’s third book. A work of spectacularly inclusive nonfiction, it delves into the history of the migrant rebels, or magonistas, who, in 1910, were led by Ricardo Flores Magón. The magonistas organized thousands of Mexican workers to oust Mexico’s pro-imperialist dictator. Hernández is a professor at UCLA, holding the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and directing the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2019, and while this book should join not only California canon but also the country’s canon, it is no ordinary academic history. It reads with the keen pacing and drama of a novel.

Here at the California Book Club, we are not the first to recognize the vital importance of "Bad Mexicans." It was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and PEN America’s John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction and was long-listed for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Cundill History Prize.

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