The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance

Michael Kwet is a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project and a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. His research focuses on digital colonialism, carceral tech, social media, digital socialism, the environment, and surveillance.

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.