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In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy (American Crossroads, Band 28) - Softcover

Buch 18 von 58: American Crossroads

Pegler-Gordon, Dr. Anna

 
9780520252981: In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy (American Crossroads, Band 28)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520252985 ISBN 13: 9780520252981
Verlag: University of California Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

When restrictive immigration laws were introduced in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, they involved new requirements for photographing and documenting immigrants--regulations for visually inspecting race and health. This work is the first to take a comprehensive look at the history of immigration policy in the United States through the prism of visual culture. Including many previously unpublished images, and taking a new look at Lewis Hine's photographs, Anna Pegler-Gordon considers the role and uses of visual documentation at Angel Island for Chinese immigrants, at Ellis Island for European immigrants, and on the U.S.-Mexico border. Including fascinating close visual analysis and detailed histories of immigrants in addition to the perspectives of officials, this richly illustrated book traces how visual regulations became central in the early development of U.S. immigration policy and in the introduction of racial immigration restrictions. In so doing, it provides the historical context for understanding more recent developments in immigration policy and, at the same time, sheds new light on the cultural history of American photography.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anna Pegler-Gordon is Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at Michigan State University.

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"This beautifully written and illustrated study is a significant intervention in the histories of photography and of immigration. It excitingly shows how the state's efforts to picture and control migrants moved from one group of subjects to the next and how technological advances called forth new forms of immigrant resistance."—David Roediger, author of How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon

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"This beautifully written and illustrated study is a significant intervention in the histories of photography and of immigration. It excitingly shows how the state's efforts to picture and control migrants moved from one group of subjects to the next and how technological advances called forth new forms of immigrant resistance." David Roediger, author of How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520252985
ISBN 13 
9780520252981
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
340
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