Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground

by Banks,Adam J.

• ISBN13: 9780805853124
• ISBN10: 080585312X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135604813
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-26
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

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

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Keith Gilyard
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Prologue	xvii
Chapter 1 Introduction: Looking for Unity in the Midst of Madness: Transformative Access as the ONE in African American Rhetoric and Technology Studies	1	(10)
Chapter 2 Oakland, the Word, and the Divide: How We All Missed the Moment	11	(36)
Chapter 3 Martin, Malcolm, and a Black Digital Ethos	47	(21)
Chapter 4 Taking Black Technology Use Seriously: African American Discursive Traditions in the Digital Underground	68	(18)
Chapter 5 Rewriting Racist Code: The Black Jeremiad as Countertechnology in Critical Race Theory	86	(19)
Chapter 6 Through This Hell into Freedom: Black Architects, Slave Quilters and an African American Rhetoric of Design	105	(26)
Chapter 7 A Digital Jeremiad in Search of Higher Ground: Transforming Technologies, Transforming a Nation	131	(16)
References	147	(6)
Author Index	153	(2)
Subject Index	155