Review: Sarah Kerr on ”Bad Mexicans”

Kelly Lytle Hernández has described growing up in San Diego in the late 1980s, under the watch of police and the border patrol at the height of the war on drugs. A school friend’s uncle got deported, devastating the family. Lytle Hernández, who is Black, told the Guardian soon after winning a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019 that she herself was “full of st…