Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground

ISBN-13: 9780805853131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 186 str.

Adam J. Banks;Banks

Opis

This book examines the Digital Divide in light of America's larger racial divide, in an attempt to figure out what meaningful access for African American to technologies and the larger American society can or should mean. It is argued that African Americ

Spis treści

Contents: K. Gilyard, Foreword. Preface. Prologue. Introduction: Looking for Unity in the Midst of Madness: Transformative Access as the ONE in African American Rhetoric and Technology Studies. Oakland, the Word, and the Divide: How We All Missed the Moment. Martin, Malcolm, and a Black Digital Ethos. Taking Black Technology Use Seriously: African American Discursive Traditions in the Digital Underground. Rewriting Racist Code: The Black Jeremiad as Countertechnology in Critical Race Theory. Through This Hell Into Freedom: Black Architects, Slave Quilters, and an African American Rhetoric of Design. A Digital Jeremiad in Search of Higher Ground: Transforming Technologies, Transforming a Nation.

O autorze

Adam J. Banks