Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 (A John Hope Franklin Center Book)
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Томек в стране кенгуру, Приключения Томека на черном континенте, Томек на тропе войны, Томек ищет снежного человека, Таинственное путешествие Томека, Томек среди охотников за человеческими головами, Томек у истоков Амазонки
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Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. Ken Gonzales-Day reveals racially motivated lynching as a more widespread practice. His research uncovered 350 instances of lynching that occurred in the state of California between 1850 and 1935. The majority were perpetrated against Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans; more Latinos were lynched in California than were persons of any other race or ethnicity. An artist and writer, Gonzales-Day began this study by photographing lynching sites in order to document the absences and empty spaces that are emblematic of the forgotten history of lynching in the West. Drawing on newspaper articles, periodicals, court records, historical photographs, and souvenir postcards, he attempted to reconstruct the circumstances surrounding the lynchings that had occurred in the spaces he was photographing. The result is an unprecedented textual and visual record of a...Похожие книги
