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Article Excerpt
AMBIGUOUS JUSTICE: NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE LAW IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1848-1890
By Vanessa Ann Gunther (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2006, 256 pp., $29.95 paper)
LYNCHING IN THE WEST, 1850-1935
By Ken Gonzales-Day (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006, 288 pp., illustrated, $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper)
TWO NEW BOOKS FOCUS on the second half of California's nineteenth century. While concentrating on different subjects--Vanessa Ann Gunther on Native Americans and the law and Ken Gonzales-Day on lynching in California--both raise similar questions and provide new information for historians seeking to discuss justice, or rather injustice, primarily for Native Americans, Asians, and Latinos, between 1848 and...
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