Adam J Banks

Race, Rhetoric, and Technology

Searching for Higher Ground

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780805853131
• ISBN-10: 0805853138
• Artikelnr.: 22325410

Autorenporträt

Adam J. Banks

Inhaltsangabe

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.