City of inmates : conquest, rebellion, and the rise of human caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 / Kelly Lytle Hernández.

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

"Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernández documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration"-- Provided by publisher.

English

April 21, 2017

Includes bibliographical references and index.