Poor white folks are not exempt from this racial politics of manifest destiny, settler colonialism. World War I comes. The 1920s come. And those men are swept up into uniforms and into factories. That crisis comes to an end at the same moment that you have a rising number of Mexican immigrants coming into the country. So there is a shift that happens in the 1920s. But it's just jails full of Charlie Chaplin looking dudes. You got it.
MacArthur fellow and UCLA professor, Kelly Lytle Hernández, joins Adam to explain how explictly racist policies of the past created the incarceration and immigration systems we still have today.
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