City of inmates
Subtitle: conquest, rebellion, and the rise of human caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
Series: Justice, power, and politics; Justice, power, and politics
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781469631189
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; History; Imprisonment; Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Other titles: Conquest, rebellion, and the rise of human caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Conquest and incarceration; title: An eliminatory option; title: Hobos in Heaven; title: Not imprisonment in a legal sense; title: Scorpion's tale; title: Caged birds; title: Justice for Samuel Faulkner; title: Conclusion: Upriver in the age of mass incarceration; title: The rebel archive.