{"id":66489,"date":"2025-10-29T04:07:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/event\/schouler-lecture-with-kelly-lytle-hernandez\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:34:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:34:43","slug":"schouler-lecture-with-kelly-lytle-hernandez","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/event\/schouler-lecture-with-kelly-lytle-hernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"Schouler Lecture with Kelly Lytle Hern\u00e1ndez"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“The Whites-Only Immigration Regime, 1803 to Now<\/strong>“
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair of History at UCLA<\/strong><\/p>\n

4:30pm in Hodson 213 (Reception to follow in the Gilman Atrium)<\/em><\/p>\n

During the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), Congress passed the nation\u2019s first immigration ban, targeting free Black migrants, namely Haitians, for exclusion. After the Civil War, federal authorities wildly expanded the nation\u2019s immigration system to target Black, Asian, and other nonwhite immigrants for exclusion, punishment, and removal, creating the framework for our modern immigration system. By the 1930s, Congress had adopted a Whites-only immigration regime in all but name. That regime\u00a0effectively hung a \u201cWhites only\u201d sign on the nation\u2019s front door while propping the nation\u2019s \u201cbackdoor\u201d open to a racialized, criminalized, and deportable workforce.\u00a0To date, federal authorities have revised but never repealed this system. This talk chronicles the rise, evolution, and persistence of the whites-only immigration regime, from 1803 to now.<\/p>\n

Professor Kelly Lytle Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong> holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History at UCLA. One of the nation\u2019s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, she is the author of the award-winning books\u00a0Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(University of California Press, 2010),\u00a0City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(University of North Carolina Press, 2017), and\u00a0Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Norton, 2022). In 2016, she founded the\u00a0Million Dollar Hoods<\/a>\u00a0research initiative, which maps fiscal and human cost of mass incarceration in Los Angeles and, between 2017 and 2022, she led the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. For her historical and contemporary work, Professor Lytle Hern\u00e1ndez was named a 2019\u00a0MacArthur \u201cGenius\u201d Fellow<\/a>. She is also an elected member of the\u00a0Society of American Historians<\/a>,\u00a0the American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a>, and the\u00a0Pulitzer Prizes Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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