Technicolor : race, technology, and everyday life / edited by Alondra Nelson and Thuy Linh N. Tu, with Alicia Headlam Hines.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Alondra.

Tu, Thuy Linh N.

Hines, Alicia Headlam

Elsie de Renzo Orlando Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Social aspects--United States.

Technological innovations.

Technological innovations--Social aspects.

Minorities in technology.

United States.

Minorities in technology--United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2001]

Summary:

The cultural impact of new information and communication technologies has been a constant topic of debate, but questions of race and ethnicity remain a critical absence. TechniColor fills this gap by exploring the relationship between race and technology.

From Indian H-1B Workers and Detroit techno music to karaoke and the Chicano interneta, TechniColor's specific case studies document the ways in which people of color actually use technology. The results rupture such racial stereotypes as Asian whiz-kids and Black and Latino technophobes, while fundamentally challenging many widely-held theoretical and political assumptions.

Incorporating a broader definition of technology and technological practices -- to include not those technologies thought to create "revolutions" (computer hardware and software) but also cars, cellular phones, and other everyday technologies -- TechniColor reflects the larger history of technology use by people of color.

Contents:

Beyond access: race, technology, community / Logan Hill

"Their logic against them": contradictions in sex, race, and class in silicon valley / Karen J. Hossfeld

Net-working: the online cultural entrepreneur / Andrew Ross interviews McLean Mashingaidze Greaves

Temporary access: the Indian H-1B worker in the United States / Amitava Kumar

Appropriating technology / Alondra Nelson and Thuy Linh N. Tu interview Vivek Bald

"Take a little trip with me": lowriding and the poetics of scale / Ben Chappell

Karaoke and the construction of identity / Casey Man Kong Lum

Sound effects / Tricia Rose interview Beth Coleman

Black secret technology: Detroit techno and the information age / Ben Williams

Tales of an Asiatic geek girl: Slant from paper to pixels / Mimi Nguyen

The virtual barrio @ the other frontier:(or the Chicano interneta) / Guillermo Gómez-Peña.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elsie de Renzo Orlando Fund.

ISBN:

0814736033

OCLC:

45708209