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Author Banks, Adam J. (Adam Joel)

Title Race, rhetoric, and technology : searching for higher ground / Adam J. Banks.

Publication Info. Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum ; Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (162 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series NCTE-LEA research series in literacy and composition
NCTE-LEA research series in literacy and composition.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152) and indexes.
Contents Introduction: Looking for Unity in the Midst of Madness: Transformative Access as the ONE in African American Rhetoric and Technology Studies -- Oakland, the Word, and the Divide: How We All Missed the Moment -- Martin, Malcolm, and a Black Digital Ethos -- Taking Black Technology Use Seriously: African American Discursive Traditions in the Digital Underground -- Rewriting Racist Code: The Black Jeremiad as Countertechnology in Critical Race Theory -- Through This Hell Into Freedom: Black Architects, Slave Quilters, and an African American Rhetoric of Design -- A Digital Jeremiad in Search of Higher Ground: Transforming Technologies, Transforming a Nation.
Summary Examines moments in traditions of appeals, warnings, demands, and debates to make explicit the connections between technological issues and African Americans' equal and just participation in American society. This volume is intended for researchers, professionals, and students in Rhetoric, Computers and Composition, and African American Studies.
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Subject African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1975-
Subject African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans -- Communication.
African Americans -- Communication.
Digital divide -- United States.
Digital divide.
United States.
Technology -- Social aspects -- United States.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- United States.
Rhetoric -- Social aspects.
Rhetoric.
United States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Racism -- United States.
Racism.
Chronological Term Since 1975
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Racism.
Other Form: Print version: Banks, Adam J. (Adam Joel). Race, rhetoric, and technology. Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum ; Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, ©2006 080585312X 0805853138 (DLC) 2005040144 (OCoLC)60311889
ISBN 1410617386 (electronic book)
9781410617385 (electronic book)
080585312X (alkaline paper)