Ken Gonzales-Day: "Lynching in the West"
DATE: Wednesday, May 16, 2007
TIME: 6:00 p.m.
LOCATION: 1101 E. 58th Street, Rosenwald Hall, Room 405
Ken Gonzales-Day, Associate Professor of Art at Scripps College, is the author of Lynching in The West: 1850-1935 (Duke University Press). His book documents 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, Ken Gonzales-Day began his study by photographing lynch sites in order to document the forgotten history of lynching in the West. The result is an unprecedented textual and visual record of a largely unacknowledged manifestation of racial violence in the United States.
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