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In City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965, Kelly Lytle Hernández tackled L.A.’s sprawl of jails and prisons, explaining how the city came to create the largest prison system in the U.S. by systematically and intentionally “purging, removing, caging … and eliminating” immigrants and people of color.
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“In late April, a detailed 20-page LAC DPH report showed how COVID-19 cases and deaths were significantly higher among Black and Latino populations compared with white and Asian populations, with poverty another leading factor—findings mirrored in this more recent UCLA [Latino Policy & Politics Institute] analysis.”
Research by Professors David Hayes-Bautista and Paul Hsu showed increased mortality rates in all Latino age groups: young adults, early middle age, and late middle age.
Artist Harry Gamboa Jr. and Times writer Carolina A. Miranda join a post-screening discussion with moderator Chon Noriega, director of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and author of “Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema.”
“Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor and UCLA LPPI expert, said in a statement that in the early days of the pandemic, concern centered on the skyrocketing death rate of the elderly.”
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