City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771�1965 (Justice, Power, and Politics)

Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernaandez 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, Hernaandez documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration--

• | Author: Kelly Lytle Hern�ndez
• | Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• | Publication Date: February 01, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1469659190
• | ISBN-13: 9781469659190