Color Monitors: The Black Face of Technology in America

Martin Kevorkian

Published by Cornell University Press 2006

Color Monitors

The Black Face of Technology in America

Martin Kevorkian

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501727382

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About this book

"Color Monitors looks at a particular subset of imagined computer use, focusing on scenarios that demand from the person at the keyboard an intimate technical knowledge. My research has uncovered a peculiar pattern: race comes into sharp relief when...

Author / Editor information

Martin Kevorkian is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews

Joseph Tabbi, University of Illinois at Chicago:

Martin Kevorkian argues, with wit and variety, that technology has become a preferred cultural tactic for containing blackness. Kevorkian's insight that the same dynamic that made slavery foundational to the American national project is also at work now in the technological formations of empire is astonishing.

Alexander Weheliye, Northwestern University:

Color Monitors provides a much-needed survey of racialized representations vis-à-vis technology in contemporary mainstream American culture. Martin Kevorkian navigates among film, advertisements, and narrative fiction in a writing style that is eminently readable without eschewing complexity.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Prologue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Computers with Color Monitors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. Lost Worlds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
3. Integrated Circuits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
4. Techno-Black like Me Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
5. Thinking inside the Black Box Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Illustrations
- Other: 2 line figures, 11 halftones
Keywords: African-American Studies; Performing Arts & Drama; Literary Studies

eBook

Published: July 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501727382