A Violent Birth: Disorder, Crime, and Law Enforcement, 1849-1890

McGrath, Roger D.

doi:10.2307/25161699

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“…In the first five years of the Gold Rush, miners extracted around 350,000 kilos of gold. The Gold Rush turned San Francisco into a lawless and violent place, with whole districts given over to gambling and prostitution (Asbury, 1933; McGrath, 2003). The Gold Rush also accelerated the genocidal dispossession of Native Americans that began in the Spanish period because they stood in the way of the violent wealth extraction (Madley, 2016).…”

Section: ‘Foreign But Sweet’: the Us Dispossessionmentioning

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Native American Dis/possessions: Postcolonial Trauma in Hitchcock’s Vertigo

Ecks

2022

Theory, Culture & Society

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The Ohlone, the original settlers of the San Francisco region, were violently dispossessed by successive colonial regimes, first Spanish, then US American. The colonial trauma was written out of history, and by the 20th century anthropologists pronounced the Ohlone to be ‘extinct’. In this article, I explore how the dispossession of the Ohlone haunt one of the greatest movies of all time: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958). Although Vertigo is one of the most-analysed films ever, no one has noticed that Carlotta Valdes – the dispossessed woman who comes back from the dead to take possession of the living – would have been Native American. A hauntological reading reveals Vertigo as an unwitting witness of colonial dispossession.

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Section: ‘Foreign But Sweet’: the Us Dispossessionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Native American Dis/possessions: Postcolonial Trauma in Hitchcock’s Vertigo

Ecks

2022

Theory, Culture & Society

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“…165, 176-178). Duelists fought in California in the 1850s (Gill 1981;McGrath 2003), and when Mississipian Alexander Keith McClurg died in 1855, he was renowned for having fought in 14 duels and having killed his man in 10 (Darkins 1978).…”

Section: The Spectrum Of Antebellum Extralegal Justicementioning

confidence: 99%