Ken Gonzales-Day

Lynching in the West

1850-1935

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Produktbeschreibung

Cultural history of the lynching of Latinos in the U.S. West, with an emphasis on photographic and visual representation of lynchings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337942
• ISBN-10: 0822337940
• Artikelnr.: 21157297

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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