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City of inmates : conquest, rebellion, and the rise of human caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 / Kelly Lytle Hernández.

Author/creator Hernández, Kelly Lytle author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Description301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Justice, power, and politics
Justice, power, and politics. ^A1147248
Contents Introduction : conquest and incarceration -- An eliminatory option -- Hobos in Heaven -- Not imprisonment in a legal sense -- Scorpion's tale -- Caged birds -- Justice for Samuel Faulkner -- Conclusion : upriver in the age of mass Incarceration -- The rebel archive.
Abstract "Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernández documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 221-290) and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2016039788
ISBN9781469631189 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
ISBN1469631180 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
ISBN(ebook)

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