Twelve contributions written by professors of English, communications, art history, and other fields address issues of race and technology in contemporary culture, including the construction of racialized identities online, off-line representations of cyberspace as a racially-coded environment, race and access to technology, and other topics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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"Race in Cyberspace is relevant to a rhetorically-based vision of the field because it opens up opportunities for a more insightful understanding of how race can operate in environments that assume it is- and should be- irrelevant." -- Adam J. Banks, Technical CommunicationQuarterly "This collection is the first scholarly attempt to examine issues of race in 'cyberspace.' A discussion of this subject in any medium has been pressing for more than a decade. Despite the exponential growth of the computer industry and network communications during the last twenty years, considerations of the role of 'race' in the production and popular uses of the technology have been repressed. For breaking the silence, this book will remain an important contribution... This collection will enrich scholar's understanding of race in 'cyberspace'." -- Maria Fernandez, Callaloo
Acknowledgments vii Race in Cyberspace: An Introduction 1(14) Beth E. Kolko Lisa Nakamura Gilbert B. Rodman ``Where Do You Want to Go Today? Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality 15(12) Lisa Nakamura The Appended Subject: Race and Identity as Digital Assemblage 27(24) Jennifer Gonzalez The Revenge of the Yellowfaced Cyborg: The Rape of Digital Geishas and the Colonization of Cyber-Coolies in 3D Realms Shadow Warrior 51(18) Jeffrey A. Ow Sexy SIMS, Racy SIMMS 69(18) Rajani Sudan In Medias Race: Filmic Representation, Networked Communication, and Racial Intermediation 87(30) David Crane Ill Take My Stand in Dixie-Net: White Guys, the South, and Cyberspace 117(16) Tara McPherson Margins in the Wires: Looking for Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Blacksburg Electronic Village 133(18) David Silver Language, Identity, and the Internet 151(20) Mark Warschauer Babel Machines and Electronic Universalism 171(20) Joe Lockard The Computer Race Goes to Class: How Computers in Schools Helped Shape the Racial Topography of the Internet 191(22) Jonathan Sterne Erasing @race: Going White in the (Inter)Face 213(20) Beth E. Kolko Contributors 233(4) Index 237
Beth Kolko is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. Lisa Nakamura is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gilbert B. Rodman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida.
