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The California genocide was a series of systematized killings of thousands of Indigenous people of California by United States government agents and private citizens in the 19th century. It began following the American Conquest of California from Mexico, and the influx of settlers due to the California Gold Rush, which accelerated the decline ...
An American Genocide was the first book to fully document the U.S. government-sanctioned California Genocide. [ 1 ] The book was published by Yale University Press [ 2 ] and is used by Yale University. [ 1 ] The 692 page book [ 2 ] was published on 27 June 2017. [ 1 ] It was written by Benjamin Madley, a professor of history at the University ...
Concupiscence (from Late Latin concupīscentia, from the Latin verb concupīscere, from con-, "with", here an intensifier, + cupere, "to desire" + -scere, a verb-forming suffix denoting beginning of a process or state) is an ardent longing, typically one that is sensual. [1]
e. Josefa Segovia, also known as Juanita or Josefa Loaiza, was a Mexican-American woman who was executed by hanging in Downieville, California, on July 5, 1851. [1] She was found guilty of murdering a local miner, Frederick Cannon. She is known to be the first and only woman to be hanged in California. [2]
e. This is a bibliography of California history. It contains English language (including translations) books and mainstream academic journal articles published after World War II. Inclusion criteria. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all works about California history. It is limited to works primarily or substantially ...
Madrigal v. Quilligan. Eugenics in California. Eugenics in California is a notable part of eugenics in the United States. As an early leading force in the field of eugenics, California became the third state in the United States to enact a sterilization law. By 1921, California had accounted for 80% of sterilizations nationwide.
1960s Berkeley protests. The 1960s Berkeley protests were a series of events at the University of California, Berkeley, and Berkeley, California. Many of these protests were a small part of the larger Free Speech Movement, which had national implications and constituted the onset of the counterculture of the 1960s.
The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California ( ISBN 978-0520029057) is a 1975 labor and California history book by Alexander Saxton which became one of the founding texts of Asian American studies. The book has been described as "represent [ing] the best example of writing in the historical materialist tradition ...