Authors and historians Kelly Lytle Hernández and Imani Perry reframe what we think we know of US and global identity and history. Lytle Hernández depicts the cross-border history of the migrant rebels, known as magonistas, who paved the way for the 1910 Mexican Revolution led by brothers Jesús and Ricardo Flores Magón. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands recounts President Porfirio Díaz’s rise to power, the United States’ role in undermining the revolt, and how those events continue to influence US–Mexico relations today.