Race, rhetoric, and technology

Description:

"In this book Adam Banks uses the concept of the Digital Divide as a metonym for America's larger racial divide, in an attempt to figure out what meaningful access for African Americans to technologies and the larger American society can or should mean. He argues that African American rhetorical traditions - the traditions of struggle for justice and equitable participation in American society - exhibit complex and nuanced ways of understanding the difficulties inherent in the attempt to navigate through the seemingly impossible contradictions of gaining meaningful access to technological systems with the good they seem to make possible and at the same time resisting the exploitative impulses that such systems always seem to present."--Jacket.

subjects: African Americans,  Communication,  Digital divide,  Intellectual life,  Race relations,  Racism,  Rhetoric,  Social aspects of Rhetoric,  Social aspects of Technology,  Social conditions,  Technology,  Social aspects,  African americans, social conditions,  African americans, intellectual life,  Technology, social aspects,  Technology, history, united states,  United states, race relations,  Noirs américains,  Conditions sociales,  Vie intellectuelle,  Fossé numérique,  Rhétorique,  Aspect social,  Relations raciales,  Racisme,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Ethnic Studies,  African American Studies

Places: United States

Times: 1975-