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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gonzales-Day, Ken (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Series:John Hope Franklin Center Book.
Subjects:
Lynching > California > History.
Lynching > California > History > Pictorial works.
Vigilance committees > California > History.
Extrajudicial executions > California > History.
Lynchage > Californie > Histoire.
Lynchage > Californie > Histoire > Ouvrages illustrés.
Exécutions sommaires > Californie > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Extrajudicial executions
Lynching
Vigilance committees
Lynchjustiz
California
Kalifornien
History
Pictorial works
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Searching for California's hang trees
  • Counting the dead : frontier justice and the antilynching movement
  • The greatest good : Capital punishment or popular justice?
  • In the shadow of photography : copy prints in the archive
  • Signifying bodies : unblushing and monstrous
  • The wonder 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.

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