The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance

Criminal Law

The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance

By Michael Kwet
Cambridge University Press September 2025

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ISBN-13
9781009696975
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
September 2025
Format
Paperback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Featuring chapters authored by leading scholars in the fields of criminology, critical race studies, history, and more, The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance cuts across history and geography to provide a detailed examination of how race and surveillance intersect throughout space and time. The volume reviews surveillance technology from the days of colonial conquest to the digital era, focusing on countries such as the United States, Canada, the UK, South Africa, the Philippines, India, Brazil, and Palestine. Weaving together narratives on how technology and surveillance have developed over time to reinforce racial discrimination, the book delves into the often-overlooked origins of racial surveillance, from skin branding, cranial measurements, and fingerprinting to contemporary manifestations in big data, commercial surveillance, and predictive policing.

Lucid, accessible, and expertly researched, this handbook provides a crucial investigation of issues spanning history and at the forefront of contemporary life.

Table of Contents

1. The golden era of racial surveillance: an introduction
Michael Kwet
2. Sorting identity
Eric Stoddart
3. Imperial mimesis: migration of surveillance from the colonial Philippines to the United States
Alfred McCoy
4. Separate spheres and the body as an information object: the racialisation and surveillance of British women during the long nineteenth century
Toni Weller
5. Linking caste and surveillance: how digital governance has legitimised caste discrimination in India
Amber Sinha and Shruti Trikanad
6. Surveillance in South Africa: from skin branding to digital colonialism
Michael Kwet
7. Israel/Palestine, North America and surveillance
Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail B. Bakan
8. Colonialism's uneasy legacy: topologies of race and surveillance in São Paulo
Claudio Altenhain, Alcides dos Reis Peron, Leandro Siqueira and Ricardo Campello
9. China's surveillance and repression in Xinjiang
Myunghee Lee and Emir Yazici
10. Asian Americans as 'the Perpetual Foreigner' under scrutiny
Frank Wu
11. The great white father and his little red children: surveillance and race in native America
Anton Treuer
12. In a most excellent and perfect order: surveillance, racialization, and government practices in colonial Canada
Scott Thompson
13. Surveillance and public schools: policing, desegregation and the criminalization of minority youth in Charlotte Mecklenburg schools
Erica L. Nelson and Tracey A. Benson
14. Countering violent extremism and surveillance: the experience from schools and colleges in England
Joel Busher, Tufyal Choudhary and Paul Thomas
15. Resistance and the politics of surveillance and control
Anthony E. Cook
16. Surveilled subjects and encounters with technologically mediating law enforcement: reflecting on relational concerns
Alana Saulnier
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