After the Civil War, more and more white men were dispossessed of land. These men become the quote, wandering poor, the so-called tramps and hobos. They migrate across the Midwest and into the American West to work in seasonal industries. And they are regarded as an internal racial threat to white America.
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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