| Josefa Segovia | |
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 Artist's impression of Segovia's hanging, from William Downie's Hunting for Gold, published 1893 | |
| Location | Downieville, California |
| Coordinates | 39°34′03″N 120°48′44″W / 39.56750°N 120.81222°W |
| Date | July 5, 1851 |
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Josefa Segovia, also known as Juanita or Josefa Loaiza, was a Mexican-American woman who was lynched by hanging in Downieville, California, on July 5, 1851.[1] She is known as the first recorded Mexican woman to be lynched in California.[2] Josefa is also an important figure in Chicana feminist theory as her case highlights the violence Mexican woman were facing at the time and the resistance against it.[3][4]
- ^ Ochoa, Oscar (2015). The California Crucible: Frontier narratives and the lynching of Josefa Segovia. Dominguez Hills, CA: California State University. p. 1.
- ^ Gutierrez, Margo, and Matt S. Meier. Encyclopedia of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. Greenwood, 2000. Print. p. 135-136.
- ^ Mendoza, Zoila S. (December 2005). "The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village.(Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations.)". The American Historical Review. 110 (5): 1573–1574. doi:10.1086/ahr.110.5.1573. ISSN 0002-8762.
- ^ Rojas, Maythee (2007). "Re-Membering Josefa: Reading the Mexican Female Body in California Gold Rush Chronicles". Women's Studies Quarterly. 35 (1/2): 126–148. ISSN 0732-1562.
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