Lynching in the West - 1850-1935

Informationen zum Autor Ken Gonzales-Day Klappentext Cultural history of the lynching of Latinos in the U.S. West, with an emphasis on photographic and visual representation of lynchings. Zusammenfassung This visual and textual study of lynchings that took place in California between 1850 and 1935 shows that race-based lynching in the United States reached far beyond the South. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Search for California’s Hanging Trees 1 1. Counting the Dead: Frontier Justice and the Antilynching Movement 23 2. The Greatest Good: Capital Punishment or Popular Justice? 63 3. In the Shadow of Photography: Copy Prints in the Archive 93 4. Signifying Bodies: Unblushing and Monstrous 133 5. The Wonder Gaze 173 Conclusion 201 Appendix 1. Case List of Lynchings and Summary Executions 205 Appendix 2. Selected List of Legal and Military Executions 229 Appendix 3. Pardons, 1849–59 237 Notes 239 Bibliography 275 Index 297

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Ken Gonzales-Day
• Edition: Duke University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.11.2006
• EAN: 9780822337942
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3794-2
• Pages: 332
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Thèmes: A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book; A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Droit > Droit pénal, droit de procédure pénale, criminologie