Race, rhetoric, and technology : searching for higher ground /

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"In this book Adam Banks uses the concept of the Digital Divide as a metonym for America's larger racial divide, in an attempt to figure out what meaningful access for African Americans to technologies and the larger American society can or should mean. He argues that African American rhet...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Banks, Adam J. (Adam Joel)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Mahwah, NJ : Urbana, Ill. : Lawrence Erlbaum ; National Council of Teachers of English, c2006.
Series:NCTE-LEA research series in literacy and composition
NCTE-LEA research series in literacy and composition
Subjects:
African Americans > Communication.
Digital divide > United States.
Technology > Social aspects > United States.
Rhetoric > Social aspects > United States.
Racism > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions > 1975-
African Americans > Intellectual life.
United States > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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