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Technology and the African-American experience : needs and opportunities for study / edited by Bruce Sinclair.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 237 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262283656
  • 0262283654
  • 1417561831
  • 9781417561834
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Technology and the African-American experience.DDC classification:
  • 608.996/073 22
LOC classification:
  • T21 .T4295 2004eb
Other classification:
  • 15.85
  • 83.62
  • ZG 8770
Online resources:
Contents:
Integrating the histories of race and technology / Bruce Sinclair -- Landscapes of technology transfer: rice cultivation and African continuities / Judith Carney -- Invention and innovation, 1619-1930 / Portia James -- History in the funny papers / Bruce Sinclair -- New South, new North: region, ideology, and access in industrial education / Nina Lerman -- Raising fish with a song: technology, chanteys, and African-Americans in the Atlantic Menhaden fishery / Barbara Garrity-Blake -- Pictures from an exposition / Bruce Sinclair -- 'The open road': automobility and racial uplift in the interwar years / Kathleen Franz -- The matter of race in histories of American technology / Rebecca Herzig -- Minority engineering education in the United States since 1945: a research proposal / Amy Slaton -- Museums and the interpretation of African-American history / Lonnie Bunch -- A bibliography of technology and the African-American experience / Amy Sue Bix.
Summary: This collection of essays examines the interaction of race and technology in a variety of social and technological contexts.
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Integrating the histories of race and technology / Bruce Sinclair -- Landscapes of technology transfer: rice cultivation and African continuities / Judith Carney -- Invention and innovation, 1619-1930 / Portia James -- History in the funny papers / Bruce Sinclair -- New South, new North: region, ideology, and access in industrial education / Nina Lerman -- Raising fish with a song: technology, chanteys, and African-Americans in the Atlantic Menhaden fishery / Barbara Garrity-Blake -- Pictures from an exposition / Bruce Sinclair -- 'The open road': automobility and racial uplift in the interwar years / Kathleen Franz -- The matter of race in histories of American technology / Rebecca Herzig -- Minority engineering education in the United States since 1945: a research proposal / Amy Slaton -- Museums and the interpretation of African-American history / Lonnie Bunch -- A bibliography of technology and the African-American experience / Amy Sue Bix.

This collection of essays examines the interaction of race and technology in a variety of social and technological contexts.

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