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

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

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Author / Creator:	Hernandez, Kelly Lytle, author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017] ©2017
Description:	301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Justice, power, and politics Justice, power, and politics.
Subject:	Imprisonment -- California -- Los Angeles -- History. Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- California -- Los Angeles -- History. Criminal justice, Administration of -- California -- Los Angeles -- History. Criminal justice, Administration of. Discrimination in criminal justice administration. Imprisonment. California -- Los Angeles. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11316348

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ISBN:	9781469631189 1469631180 9781469631196
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-290) and index.
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"--
Standard no.:	40026973739

Table of 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.