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  • Formaat: Hardback, 304 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x26 mm, kaal: 459 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 28-Nov-2019
  • Kirjastus: Amistad Press
  • ISBN-10: 0062890565
  • ISBN-13: 9780062890566
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 304 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x26 mm, kaal: 459 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 28-Nov-2019
  • Kirjastus: Amistad Press
  • ISBN-10: 0062890565
  • ISBN-13: 9780062890566
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Powerful memoir. . .Fords thought-provoking narrative tells the story of African-American pride and perseverance.

Publishers Weekly (Starred)

A masterful storyteller, Ford interweaves his personal story with the backdrop of the social movements unfolding at that time, providing a revealing insiders view of the tech industry. . . simultaneously informative and entertaining. . . A powerful, engrossing look at race and technology.

Kirkus Review (Starred)





In this thought-provoking and heartbreaking memoir, an award-winning writer tells the story of his father, John Stanley Ford, the first black software engineer at IBM, revealing how racism insidiously affected his fathers view of himself and their relationship.

In 1947, Thomas J. Watson set out to find the best and brightest minds for IBM. At City College he met young accounting student John Stanley Ford and hired him to become IBMs first black software engineer. But not all of the companys white employees refused to accept a black colleague and did everything in their power to humiliate, subvert, and undermine Ford.

Yet Ford would not quit. Viewing the job as the opportunity of a lifetime, he comported himself with dignity and professionalism, and relied on his community and his "street smarts" to succeed. He did not know that his hiring was meant to distract from IBMs dubious business practices, including its involvement in the Holocaust, eugenics, and apartheid.

While Ford remained at IBM, it came at great emotional cost to himself and his family, especially his son Clyde. Overlooked for promotions he deserved, the embittered Ford began blaming his fate on his skin color and the notion that darker-skinned people like him were less intelligent and less capablebeliefs that painfully divided him and Clyde, who followed him to IBM two decades later.

From his first day of workwith his wide-lapelled suit, bright red turtleneck, and huge afroClyde made clear he was different. Only IBM hadnt changed. As he, too, experienced the same institutional racism, Clyde began to better understand the subtle yet daring ways his father had fought back.

Arvustused

Powerful memoir. . .Fords thought-provoking narrative tells the story of African-American pride and perseverance. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A masterful storyteller, Ford interweaves his personal story with the backdrop of the social movements unfolding at that time, providing a revealing insiders view of the tech industry. . . simultaneously informative and entertaining. . . A powerful, engrossing look at race and technology. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

An engrossing story of how racist experiences of a Black father and son working at IBM had roots in a corporate mentality that lent support to the Nazism, Eugenics, and Apartheid.    Jeffrey Stewart, Pulitzer Prize winning Author of The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

This compelling memoir of a son and his fathertwo polymaths determined to break corporate barriers without being broken in returntakes us on an unusual journey  where the paths of race, relationships, and the social consequences of technology converge. Paula J. Giddings, author of IDA, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching.  

Fords searching reconsideration of his father sparkles with compassion and hard-earned wisdom. As he recounts the indignities his father endured as IBMs first African-American systems engineer, were reminded of the sacrifices legions of unsung firsts made to integrate corporate America, and of the lonely battles ahead.  Pamela Newkirk, award-winning author of Diversity, Inc: Why a Billion-Dollar Business Failed to Achieve Equality and of Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga 

 I was fascinated by this moving biography/memoir in which Ford, using the experiences of both his father, the first Black software engineer at IBM and himself frames the story of race in America over the last 70 years. Nancy Pearl, author of the Book Lust series

Long before there was Google, there was IBM. Think Black delivers an engaging look at our human and technological conditionand a company that sought to rule the world by making every distinction as black and white as the difference between one bit and the next. George Dyson, author of Turings Cathedral and Darwin Among the Machines

Clyde W. Ford has woven a rich tapestry, combining family memoir with the history of a corporation. This mesmerizing story is achingly reflective, as Ford discernably captures his dads challenges with his own. Think Black is enlightening, insightful, and essential to understanding the impact of corporate racism on individuals. Dr. Julianne Malveaux, author of Surviving and Thriving

 In this engaging bookpart autobiography, part biography, and part information technology primerClyde Ford trains an agile mind and keen powers of observation on both his fathers historic role in the early days of computers, and on Americas cardinal sin, racism. Think Black will make you think. . .It will also make you wince. William Neukom, founder of the World Justice Project

An inspiring account of a father and son struggling to break down racial barriers inside corporate America , and beyond. A must read. Morgan Freeman

"Essential reading." Cascadia Weekly

"Clyde Ford's words powerfully honor his father's dreams and contributions to the digital age." BookPage

Muu info

Winner of Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Jusitce Nominee (United States).
Author's Note xi
1 First Days
1(20)
2 A Sacrificial Pawn
21(12)
3 The Bones of the Machine
33(12)
4 The Book of Changes
45(14)
5 Voices of the Dead
59(16)
6 To Speak of Rivers
75(16)
7 Honeypot Traps
91(12)
8 Twice as Hard
103(22)
9 The Arrangement
125(14)
10 Doing Small Things in a Great Way
139(16)
11 Covert Ops
155(30)
12 The King Is Dead
185(18)
13 Clandestine Service
203(14)
14 A Mass Shooting at IBM
217(12)
15 The Egg
229(20)
16 Leaving
249(10)
17 Long Walks
259(4)
Epilogue: The Words of a Poet 263(2)
Acknowledgments 265(4)
Notes 269
Clyde W. Ford is the author of fifteen works of fiction and nonfiction, and is a psychotherapist, an accomplished mythologist, and a sought-after public speaker. In 2006, Ford received the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award in African American fiction. In 2019, he was named a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award in African American nonfiction. In 2021, Clyde received the prestigious Washington Center for the Book Award, the Nautilus Book Award in Social Justice, and was a finalist for the Goddard-Russo Prize in Social Justice for Think Black. Clyde was honored as a "Literary Lion" by the King County Library System in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2019. He was voted "Best Writer of Bellingham, Washington" in 2006 and 2007 by readers of Cascadia Weekly and received the 2007 Bellingham Mayor's Arts Award in Literature. Ford is currently a speaker for Humanities Washington, an affiliate of the NEA, where he presents a program entitled, "Technology, Race and Social Justice," around the state. He is also the Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Publishing Project at HarperCollins. Clyde has participated in hundreds of media interviews and has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, New Dimensions Radio, and NPR. He lives in Bellingham, Washington, where he founded the citys annual Martin Luther King Day commemoration in 1991, and enjoys walking the mountains and cruising the waters of the Pacific Northwest.