Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance
- The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Golden Age of Racial Surveillance
- 2 Sorting Identity
- 3 Imperial Mimesis
- 4 The Racialisation of British Women during the Long Nineteenth Century
- 5 Linking Caste and Surveillance
- 6 Surveillance in South Africa
- 7 Israel/Palestine, North America, and Surveillance
- 8 Colonialism’s Uneasy Legacy
- 9 China’s Surveillance and Repression in Xinjiang
- 10 Asian Americans as “the Perpetual Foreigner” under Scrutiny
- 11 The Great White Father and His Little Red Children
- 12 In a Most Excellent and Perfect Order
- 13 Surveillance and Public Schools
- 14 Surveillance and Preventing Violent Extremism
- 15 Resistance and the Politics of Surveillance and Control
- 16 Surveilled Subjects and Technologically Mediated Law Enforcement
11 - The Great White Father and His Little Red Children
Surveillance and Race in Native America
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 February 2023
- The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance
- The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Golden Age of Racial Surveillance
- 2 Sorting Identity
- 3 Imperial Mimesis
- 4 The Racialisation of British Women during the Long Nineteenth Century
- 5 Linking Caste and Surveillance
- 6 Surveillance in South Africa
- 7 Israel/Palestine, North America, and Surveillance
- 8 Colonialism’s Uneasy Legacy
- 9 China’s Surveillance and Repression in Xinjiang
- 10 Asian Americans as “the Perpetual Foreigner” under Scrutiny
- 11 The Great White Father and His Little Red Children
- 12 In a Most Excellent and Perfect Order
- 13 Surveillance and Public Schools
- 14 Surveillance and Preventing Violent Extremism
- 15 Resistance and the Politics of Surveillance and Control
- 16 Surveilled Subjects and Technologically Mediated Law Enforcement
Summary
Surveillance has always been at the heart of America’s ongoing effort to subordinate and control the first people of the land. Contrary to the mythology about scattered bands of roaming nomads in the forest, America was at least as densely populated as Europe at the time of first contact with Europeans. Charles Mann and others have successfully narrowed the population estimate of North America to somewhere around 90 million people at the time of Columbus’s arrival in the Caribbean.1 The capital city of the Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan, was three times larger than the largest city in all of Europe, which was London. Getting the land out of native hands was no small task, and a lot of blood and treasure was expended on the effort then. America’s native nations still control substantial land and resources; and much blood and treasure are still spent today in a changed but obviously ongoing effort to take what’s left. This chapter explores how surveillance was used to subjugate and colonize the Indigenous populations of North America.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance , pp. 223 - 231Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023