"New York's South Asian cabbies probably had no idea they were
straddling the digital divide when they used their own CB channels
to organize surprise strikes and demonstrations. But in
Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life, the editors bring
together a series of essays that broaden the concept far beyond the
borders of your average two-part Times series."
"--New York Magazine"
aWhat is revealed? Powerful visions, future-fantasies that as
science fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson would argue, acan make the
impossible, possiblea
--Resource Center for CyberCulture Studies
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.
a"Technicolor" is at once heroic and tragic: an anthology that
will prompt new conversations.a
--C. Richard King, Washington State University
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 techno-phobes, while fundamentally challenging
many widely-held theoretical and political assumptions.
Incorporating a broader definition of technology and
technological practices--to include not only 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.
Contributors: Vivek Bald, Ben Chappell, Beth Coleman, McLean
Greaves, Logan Hill, Alicia Headlam Hines, Karen Hossfeld, Amitava
Kumar, Casey Man Kong Lum, Alondra Nelson, Mimi Nguyen, Guillermo
Gomez-Pena, Tricia Rose, Andrew Ross, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, and Ben
Williams.
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