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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernández, Kelly Lytle, author.

Series:

Justice, power, and politics.

Justice, power, and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal justice, Administration of--California--Los Angeles--History.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--California--Los Angeles--History.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Imprisonment--California--Los Angeles--History.

Imprisonment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908522-8-1

979-88-908522-9-8

1-4696-5919-0

1-4696-3119-9

OCLC:

974947592