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From the artist's website:
From the artist's website:
"Ken Gonzales-Day has been widely recognized for his “Erased Lynching” series. The series was sparked by anti-immigration rhetoric that directly led to an increase in vigilante activity along the U.S/Mexican boarder in the early 2000s. Controversial and challenging on many levels, the project gave form to the historical erasure, or absence, of Latinos from historical accounts of lynching in the United States. The series was part of a larger project that also included the “Searching for California Hang Trees” series. In this body of work, Gonzales-Day travelled across the State of California looking for some of the locations of the over 350 lynching cases he had identified in his research. The third, and perhaps most challenging element of the project, began while Gonzales-Day was a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Residency Program in Italy. It was there that Gonzales-Day drafted the first chapters of his book, “Lynching in the West: 1850-1935” (A John Hope Franklin Center Book), published by Duke University Press in 2006. Taught at universities and colleges across the Nation, it continues to be widely cited."
