City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 (Justice, Power, and Politics)
『City of Inmates』は、ロサンゼルスにおける監禁制度の形成を植民地支配、先住民排除、移民管理、黒人・ラテン系住民への統治と結びつけてたどる歴史研究である。都市の発展と「人間を檻に入れる」政治が不可分だったことを明らかにする。
作品情報
ロサンゼルス史を、監禁という制度の長い影から読み直す。
十八世紀から二十世紀までを射程に、ロサンゼルスの刑務所、労働、警察、移民行政をつなげて論じる。現代の大量監禁を突然の現象ではなく、都市と国家が積み重ねてきた統治技術として見せる。
レビュー要約
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綿密な史料調査と長い時間軸を組み合わせる構成が高く評価されている。都市史としても監獄研究としても読める一方、扱う暴力の射程が広く、重い読後感を残す。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Univ of North Carolina Pr
- 発売日
- 2017-04-10
- ページ数
- 301ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 16.51 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781469631189
- ISBN-10
- 9781469631189
- 価格
- 36405 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Social Sciences/Specific Demographics/African American Studies
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 Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernandez documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration. But City of Inmates is also a chronicle of resilience and rebellion, documenting how targeted peoples and communities have always fought back. They busted out of jail, forced Supreme Court rulings, advanced revolution across bars and borders, and, as in the summer of 1965, set fire to the belly of the city. With these acts those who fought the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles altered the course of history in the city, the borderlands, and beyond. This book recounts how the dynamics of conquest met deep reservoirs of rebellion as Los Angeles became the City of Inmates, the nation's carceral core. It is a story that is far from over.
Kelly Lytle Hernandez is associate professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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This is the best study to date of the history of incarceration in Los Angeles. It shows how LA has become the incarceration capitol of the U.S., with most of those currently incarcerated being people of color, particularly Black people. Hernández takes us from the early native communities where human caging was unknown, through the Spanish colonists who built a jail as one of their first structures soon filled with the native people, to the modern carceral state. A riveting and revealing read.
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I have read a lot of good studies of the history of race, policing and incarceration. City of Inmates stands out in every way. It is beautifully written, remarkably conceived and built on a bedrock of research. It tells a story about the arc of injustice in Los Angeles and ends with powerful testimonies by today’s activist who offer some hope of a better day ahead.
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Kelly Lyle Hernandez is a must read. This book gives you history of the carceral system. History that is often left out or intentionally erased. 100% worth.
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I really enjoyed this book. Tons of history to understand the present.
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