Alondra Nelson, Thuy Linh Nguye Tu, Alicia Headlam Hines

Broschiertes Buch

Technicolor

Race, Technology, and Everyday Life

Herausgeber: Nelson, Alondra; Hines, Alicia Headlam; Tu, Thuy Linh Nguyen

Beschreibung

This text explores the relationship between race and technology. From Indian H-1B workers and Detroit techno music to karaoke and the Chicano interneta, this book uses case studies to document the use of technology - rupturing stereotypes such as Asian whizz kids and black technophobes.

Autor

Alondra Nelson is president of the Social Science Research Council and Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. A leading scholar of science, technology, and social inequality, she is the author most recently of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome. Her publications also include Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination ; Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History ; and Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life. Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. She is the author of The Beautiful Generation; Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion (2011) and of the forthcoming Experiments in Skin: Making Race and Beauty Across the Pacific. Alicia Headlam Hines teaches Literature and Language Arts at the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New York University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780814736043
• ISBN-10: 0814736041
• Artikelnr.: 22153267