| In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy Volume 28 Contributor(s): Pegler-Gordon, Anna (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520252985 ISBN-13: 9780520252981 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: "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" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - History | United States - General - Photography | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General |
| Dewey: 325.73 |
| LCCN: 2008049350 |
| Series: American Crossroads |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.15 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Geographic Orientation - New York - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Including many previously unpublished images, and taking a new look at Lewis Hine's photographs, Anna Pegler-Gordon considers the role and uses of visual documentation at Angel Island for Chinese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. |