Gonzales-Day Lynching in the West

1850-1935
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8824-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 332 Seiten

Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gonzales-Day, Ken

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ken Gonzales-Day is Professor and Chair of the Department of Studio Art at Scripps College. A practicing artist, he has held fellowships at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian Institution. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in cities including Los Angeles, Guadalajara, Mexico City, and New York.