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Zusatztext "Highly recommended." Informationen zum Autor Anna Pegler-Gordon is Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at Michigan State University. Klappentext "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 Zusammenfassung 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 looks at the history of immigration policy in the United States through the prism of visual culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. First Impressions: Chinese Exclusion and the Introduction of Immigration Documentation! 1875-1909 2. Photographic Paper Sons: Resisting Immigration Identity Documentation! 1893-1943 3. Ellis Island as an Observation Station: Spectacle and Surveillance! 1892-1924 4. Ellis Island as a Photo Studio: The Honorific Ethnographic Image! 1904-26 5. The Imaginary Line: Passing and Passports on the Mexican-U.S. Border! 1906-17 6. The Dividing Line: Documentation on the Mexican-U.S. Border! 1917-34 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
