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 American rhetorical traditions--the traditions of struggle for justice and equitable participation in American society--exhibit complex and nuanced ways of understanding the difficulties inherent in the attempt to navigate contradictions of gaining meaningful access to technological systems and at the same time resisting the exploitative impulses that they present.…mehr
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 American rhetorical traditions--the traditions of struggle for justice and equitable participation in American society--exhibit complex and nuanced ways of understanding the difficulties inherent in the attempt to navigate contradictions of gaining meaningful access to technological systems and at the same time resisting the exploitative impulses that they present.
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.
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.
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