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- The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance
- The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Golden Age of Racial Surveillance
- 2 Sorting Identity
- 3 Imperial Mimesis
- 4 The Racialisation of British Women during the Long Nineteenth Century
- 5 Linking Caste and Surveillance
- 6 Surveillance in South Africa
- 7 Israel/Palestine, North America, and Surveillance
- 8 Colonialism’s Uneasy Legacy
- 9 China’s Surveillance and Repression in Xinjiang
- 10 Asian Americans as “the Perpetual Foreigner” under Scrutiny
- 11 The Great White Father and His Little Red Children
- 12 In a Most Excellent and Perfect Order
- 13 Surveillance and Public Schools
- 14 Surveillance and Preventing Violent Extremism
- 15 Resistance and the Politics of Surveillance and Control
- 16 Surveilled Subjects and Technologically Mediated Law Enforcement
2 - Sorting Identity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 February 2023
- The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance
- The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Golden Age of Racial Surveillance
- 2 Sorting Identity
- 3 Imperial Mimesis
- 4 The Racialisation of British Women during the Long Nineteenth Century
- 5 Linking Caste and Surveillance
- 6 Surveillance in South Africa
- 7 Israel/Palestine, North America, and Surveillance
- 8 Colonialism’s Uneasy Legacy
- 9 China’s Surveillance and Repression in Xinjiang
- 10 Asian Americans as “the Perpetual Foreigner” under Scrutiny
- 11 The Great White Father and His Little Red Children
- 12 In a Most Excellent and Perfect Order
- 13 Surveillance and Public Schools
- 14 Surveillance and Preventing Violent Extremism
- 15 Resistance and the Politics of Surveillance and Control
- 16 Surveilled Subjects and Technologically Mediated Law Enforcement
Summary
‘Stop, who goes there?’ is a precursor in World War II movies to a character presenting his papers. His identity has to be established to verify that he is not out of place, that he is authorised to be in this particular area. Who he is – his rank, age, race, or ethnicity – is of little relevance; it is much more important that he has appropriate credentials, and is therefore authorised, to pass the control point. Presenting identity papers meets the guard’s demand in this pre-digital context. Twenty-first-century digital environments still require us to submit to identification as authorisation or verification; however, these new identifications are now deeply implicated in the broader issues of identity.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance , pp. 19 - 32Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023