Technicolor : race, technology and everyday life / edited by Alondra Nelson and Thuy Linh N. Tu with Alicia Headlam Hines.
Publisher: New York ; London : New York University Press, c2001Description: viii, 205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm001: 015201720ISBN: 0814736033; 0814736041 (pbk.)Subject(s): Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- United States | Minorities in technology -- United StatesDDC classification: 303.483| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| 303.483 MOR The net delusion : how not to liberate the world / | 303.483 MUM Technics and civilization / | 303.483 NAI High tech high touch : technology and our accelerated search for meaning / | 303.483 NEL Technicolor : race, technology and everyday life / | 303.483 OMA Cyborg : the man-machine / | 303.483 PRE Brain gain : technology and the quest for digital wisdom / | 303.483 RIF The Biotech Century : how genetic commerce will change the world / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The cultural impact of new information and communication technologies has been a constant topic of debate, but questions of race and ethnicity remain a critical absence. TechniColor fills this gap by exploring the relationship between race and technology.From Indian H-1B Workers and Detroit techno music to karaoke and the Chicano interneta, TechniColor 's specific case studies document the ways in which people of color actually use technology. The results rupture such racial stereotypes as Asian whiz-kids and Black and Latino techno-phobes, while fundamentally challenging many widely-held theoretical and political assumptions.
Incorporating a broader definition of technology and technological practices--to include not only those technologies thought to create "revolutions" (computer hardware and software) but also cars, cellular phones, and other everyday technologies-- TechniColor reflects the larger history of technology use by people of color.
Contributors: Vivek Bald, Ben Chappell, Beth Coleman, McLean Greaves, Logan Hill, Alicia Headlam Hines, Karen Hossfeld, Amitava Kumar, Casey Man Kong Lum, Alondra Nelson, Mimi Nguyen, Guillermo Goméz-Peña, Tricia Rose, Andrew Ross, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, and Ben Williams.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments (p. vii)
- Introduction: Hidden Circuits (p. 1)
- 1 Beyond Access: Race, Technology, Community (p. 13)
- 2 "Their Logic against Them": Contradictions in Sex, Race, and Class in Silicon Valley (p. 34)
- 3 Net-Working: The Online Cultural Entrepreneur (p. 64)
- 4 Temporary Access: The Indian H-1B worker in the United States (p. 76)
- 5 Appropriating Technology (p. 88)
- 6 "Take a Little Trip with Me": Lowriding and the Poetics of Scale (p. 100)
- 7 Karaoke and the Construction of Identity (p. 121)
- 8 Sound Effects (p. 142)
- 9 Black Secret Technology: Detroit Techno and the Information Age (p. 154)
- 10 Tales of an Asiatic Geek Girl: Slant from Paper to Pixels (p. 177)
- 11 The Virtual Barrio @ the Other Frontier: (or The Chicano Interneta) (p. 191)
- Contributors (p. 199)
- Index (p. 203)
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