City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965

by Kelly Lytle Hernández

Book Overview

Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469659190
• ISBN13: 9781469659190
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"