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One book that we think you would like is City of Inmates by Kelly Lytle Hernandez.

Los Angeles imprisons more people than any other city in the United States.

It is the carceral capital of the world.

But its punishing habits took root much earlier than the wars on crime and drugs. Marshaling more than two centuries of

evidence, city of inmates unmasks how native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black

disappearance were at the heart of imprisonment in Los Angeles,

revealing that mass incarceration is mass elimination.

According to Khalil Gibran Mohammed,

City of Inmates is a remarkable book.

Since the Spanish colonial period, every kind of American,

from Native Americans to Mexican and Chinese Americans,

to landless whites and African Americans, has passed through California's jailhouse doors with profound implications

for the shape of our nation today. No telling or teaching of the past is complete without

reckoning with these supremely urgent stories.

City of Inmates by Kelly Lytle Hernandez.

Out now from University of North Carolina Press.

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