Lynching in the West : 1850-1935 /

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Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. Ken Gonzales-Day reveals racially motivated lynching as a more widespread practice. His research uncovered 350 instances of lynching that occurred in the state of California between 1...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gonzales-Day, Ken (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2006]
Colección:A John Hope Franklin Center Book : 32
Temas:
Extrajudicial executions > California > History.
Lynching > California > History > Pictorial works.
Lynching > California > History.
Vigilance committees > California > History.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY).
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Searching for California's Hang Trees
  • one Counting the Dead: Frontier Justice and the Antilynching Movement
  • two The Greatest Good: Capital Punishment or Popular Justice?
  • three In the Shadow of Photography: Copy Prints in the Archive
  • four Signifying Bodies: Unblushing and Monstrous
  • five TheWonder Gaze
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1 Case List of Lynchings and Summary Executions
  • Appendix 2 Selected List of Legal and Military Executions
  • Appendix 3 Pardons, 1849-59
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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