Moya Bailey and other scholars have pointed out that Black women are subject to heightened surveillance by institutions, both to be seen through compelled surveillance as markers of institutional diversity and also because of histories of surveillance of Black women's bodies and criminalization of Black women.

Black Women and Surveillance

Henry is a deaf white man and university lecturer who recently lost the ability to speak orally due to surgery. After becoming nonspeaking, Henry was assigned an online-only teaching schedule. This led to jealousy and resentment from his colleagues who wanted to teach all their classes online. Henry was asked by his department chair for permission to discuss his lack of speech in a virtual department meeting to explain Henry's accommodations. While Henry didn't mind it, it is still compelled surveillance that Henry's department chair saw the answer to resentment from department members to be revealing Henry's disability. 

Example of Compelled Surveillance: Henry and Disability Disclosure

Price defines compelled surveillance as one is told or strongly urged to disclose or make more visible their disability or other aspects of their lived experience.

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Price notes that there are two types of surveillance discussed by participants in interviews - 
1. Investigative Surveillance
2. Compelled Surveillance

Types of Surveillance

Price, M. (2024). Crip Spacetime. Duke University Press.

Crip Spacetime

Price defines investigative surveillance as a form of surveillance where one's actions are scrutinized by an outside observer who acts like a detective.

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