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In sight of America : photography and the development of U.S. immigration policy /
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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2009]
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| Series: | American crossroads ;
28. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- First impressions : Chinese exclusion and the introduction of immigration documentation, 1875-1909
- Photographic paper sons : resisting immigration identity documentation, 1893-1943
- Ellis Island as an observation station : spectacle and inspection, 1892-1924
- Ellis Island as a photo studio : the honorific ethnographic image, 1904-26
- The imaginary line : passing and passports on the Mexican-U.S. border, 1906-17
- The dividing line : documentation on the Mexican-U.S. border, 1917-34.