UC Berkeley Hitchcock Lecture with Kelly Lytle Hernandez

In this lecture, award winning historian Kelly Lytle Hernández will be presenting her work, Racist by Design. She reveals how generations of lawmakers and law enforcers built the American immigration system to encourage white immigrants while targeting nonwhite migrants for exclusion, punishment, and removal. The goal, often explicitly stated by the system’s architects, was to create a permanent caste of undocumented and criminalized workers to provide cheap labor for the American economy.

This in-person event will be held at Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall.

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