Have you looked for information specifically on COINTELPRO and the civil rights movement? It might not be indexed under surveillance (a good deal of the activity was sabotage and harrasment, too) but having grown up under the FBI's eye, it's hard to imagine there isn't literature.
Part of the problem with scholarship on the surveillance in that generation is the conditioning to not speak out on the part of many subjects (for many reasons), and also the combination of a lack of records laws and FOIA means that even redacted records of surveillance may not have been retained. >From what I understand the richness of records retained varied literally on an agent by agent basis -- a packrat (or possibly CYA) factor. yrs, Shava Nerad [email protected] On Feb 24, 2015 11:24 AM, "Yosem Companys" <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Rebecca Slayton <[email protected]> > > > > One of my students would like to do a term paper on minority attitudes > towards privacy/surveillance, but we are finding very little literature on > this (maybe two articles that address the issue directly). His focus is on > African Americans and U.S. government surveillance, but I think information > on the attitudes of any minority group, in any country, towards any type of > surveillance, would be helpful in at least framing the issues. Does anybody > know of good resources? > > > > Thanks in advance for any tips! > > > > Best, > > Rebecca > > > > Rebecca Slayton > > Assistant Professor, Cornell University > > Department of Science & Technology Studies > > Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies > > 334 Rockefeller Hall | Fax 607-255-6044 > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected]. >
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