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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.
This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from
its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its
emergence as a large professional police force. To tell this story,
Kelly Lytle Hernandez dug through a gold mine of lost and unseen
records stored in garages, closets, an abandoned factory, and in
U.S. and Mexican archives. Focusing on the daily challenges of
policing the borderlands and bringing to light unexpected partners
and forgotten dynamics, "Migra! "reveals how the U.S. Border Patrol
translated the mandate for comprehensive migration control into a
project of policing Mexicans in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from
its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its
emergence as a large professional police force. To tell this story,
Kelly Lytle Hernandez dug through a gold mine of lost and unseen
records stored in garages, closets, an abandoned factory, and in
U.S. and Mexican archives. Focusing on the daily challenges of
policing the borderlands and bringing to light unexpected partners
and forgotten dynamics, "Migra! "reveals how the U.S. Border Patrol
translated the mandate for comprehensive migration control into a
project of policing Mexicans in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
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